The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-23
THE NATION sLAYERs.


The intimahOn that the supreme council Of the allies
is about to reach decision regarding Russia is news Of
the greatest Importance to the entrs world It is the
most satisfactory yet given that the leading
powers actually beginning to take control Of the
worlds most pressing problems and are not merely ex
changing courtesies
So overwhelmingly have the bOsaevik proved the case
against themselves that the allies are no longer justified
for delaying to act The evidence Of deliberate intent
TO assassnate organized free is 50 clear
and the crimes Of the boshevk in trying to spread their
sbOmniable doctrines atrOcous that they long ago
forfeited the right TO exist The determination of the
boshevik necessity of life to free men and free ma
TONS The bolshevii brag of freedom and denounce ex
sng bearing down upoh the workers and
the poor but wherever the bOshevi have gained power
they have robbed the poor, sndled the workers. de-
prved all classes Of their liberty destroyed order de-
bauched the public service and denied to every one any
protection property family business home or fe No
diaboca perversiOn of liberty conceived
than that which is now killing Russia
Various plans have been put forward for the consider
alton Of the allied powers in dealing with the boshev
These plans range from surrender the Russia reds to
war Of determination against them One suggestion was
that all the Russian factions should be invited to patch
up temporary peace truce and to send representatives
to the peace conference in Paris Obviously this was an
mpracticabe pan as the bosheyk plainly announce that
their system cannot exist except by the death Of exist
ing national governments The bolshevi therefore can
not share in any deliberations looking to compromise
peace in Russia existing nations enter into
ference with the boshevk except vctors vanquish
ed.
Another plan contemplated the erection Of a barrier
against the swee poi bolshevism westward by building UT
Poland, Roumana Bohemia the south Slav kingdom and
other free nations That plan good far it goes
but is inadequate. The allied powers cannot afford
adopt halfway pan which attempts to dispose Of thu
situation by 1ettng Russia stew in its juice" There
world of and shortsightedness in that phrase
The enlightened statesmen in allied nations know only
too we'll that the world will not be safe until Russia safe
1t not only for Russia but for the world that the allie
must and will adopt and execute adequate plan to
stabilize and berate the Russian nation.
The plan that will accomplish this result is necessarily
bold and comprehensive scheme Of offensive actor
against the boshevik support Of buffer states and de-
fensive action in behalf of the Russian people, including
relief scale far beyond anything yet outlined Thu
supreme council does not go far to tho
adoption Of such pan but recent events reveal very
clearly that this is coming Frances denunciaton of the
bolshevi President Wilson's statement that the friends
Of liberty must fight to finish the stiening Of the
stce terms the dispatch Of the Polish legion from France
to Poland the conclusive testimony Of Ambassador Nou
lens and Minister Scavenus and the evidence of con.
spiracy between the German army and the Russian Dol
shevik all point one way The allied powers, however
reluctant they may be to enter Russia will choose do
rather than face the greater evil Of Germanzed Rus
STA and another colossal war;
Much depends upon promptness The bolshevih can be
beaten better than later They getting her
from Germany, but the allies put stop to that
whereas later, if the situation be neglected will be
extremely difficult to prevent collision between the Ger
mans and the betrayers of Russia. Now while Marshal
Foch has his grip on the throat Of Germany while the
boshevik lack equipment and before they have
Poland now the time for the allies to act with supreme
boldness in Russia. Let them grasp the nete and crust
it. They must do it now later if they to SURVIVE
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