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has grown up among US
enough to massacre their own bour-
geoisie and perhaps 20 welcome Lus
helm in their task OF Russian peasants
and workmeu. were inclined 10 balk
1t the idea OF ming Germany ~ 49,
lTongol hordes for the purpose OF SUD
iugating the capitalist countries OF
Europe Radek's proposals they flrst
declined 10 take seriously, and when
they realized the Russians were IN
deadly earnest. they INDUCED in weird
and quaint debates, pointing out tnat
the coming MOngOls lacked class con-
-sciousness." had not reached the
stage Of industrialism and capitallst
exploitation. and hence could not py
anv canon Of Karl Marx be properly
employed in fighting the battles OF the
western proletariat
More practical -considerafionHs
TOO, were urged upon Radek- to
his fury and that OF TrotEky, BY
the few spartncistH who were en-
trusted with the secret. The Ger
man proIetnriat- the Russians
were Informed. did not propose 70
be massaered and tortured By OH
entail snvaEes for the pleasure Of
knowing that the same fate would
later fall unon their French and
Italian brethren.
To no purpose did the Russians re-
tort that the wild beasts OF the east
would be tame before they entered
the fatherland well disciplined un-
der the control OF officers Of the cars
old army serving TrOtzky In the
knowledge that at the war ONCE IN
Moscow, lists Of their dear ones were
kept whose lives would pc torIelted
II they proved ''unfaithfuI' 70 the
cause. The Germans didn't believe
this. and made no bones about saying
so. Hence, after the revolution In
Germany relations were not OF the
warmest between Trotzky. Radek-
Ioffe and the inner circle OF MOSCOW
sOvereigns, and Liebknecht and his
followers. and TO this rift IN the Boil
shevlk lutte may be attributed In part
the collapse OF the Spartactst rising
in Berlin and the failure OF the soviet
authorities to do more at the time TO
help their friends.
Feared Great Savies.
But even when Nongol horses had
been watered in the Tiber and France
lay PROSTATE under a yoke tenfOld
worse than that which Charles Martel
averted when he routed the Saracens
at Tours so many centuries ago, Trotz-
ky realized that. Europe beneath his
feet, Britain and America holding the
seas Of the world would still defy him
and make themselves decidedly IN
pleasant.
There Is no evidence at my disposal
that in America, Trotzky did anything
more than furnish agitators OF the
Industrial Workers OF the World and
other disloyal organizations with
funds to preach Bolshevism- But. as
. regards Britain. he was more ambi-
tious. He not only planned and put
into effect a widespread propaganda
campaign IN the British Isles. whose
workings are most dangerous and
causing grave anxiety a campaign
run so openly that on the second OF
this rrnnnHh we'll l-wnUm RnHenaufNE-
Jack Tanner. declared at meeting
at 400 Old Ford Road. London: "Trotz-
ky asked US to do two things The
first was TO organize agltauons TO
troops TO Russia The second was 70
bring about a revolution in Great
Britain. II we manage the second Il
Will please TrotZlly and Lenlne much
more than the first"
Failed TO Corrupt British.
Thus from within but also from
without Trotzky planned TO attack
Britain. While he placed great reli-
ance on the work OF his agents IN
stirring up discontent among the
crews OF the grand fleet-an attempt
that so far as I know has met with
no success-he planned with the Rus
sian navy and the German navy-then
intact and that he hoped his SPARTA
cist friends could deliver 20 him-to
risk sea battle" The naval mutiny
AT Mel was undoubtedly connected
with this scheme and fomented by
Russian influence, but what German
seamen had heard OF their Bolshevik !
comrades in the Russian Baltic fleet
did not incline more than a small nil Z
nOrity TO desire 20 Join forces under l
the red nag The great sea fight that ]
would seal the fate Of the capitalist !
world, Trotzky told his colleagues in /
MOSCOW year ago. would ultimately /
be fought between a red flag Russo
German fleet and a grand fleet de- /
moralized by propaganda
II the BOlshevik ships went down 1
well. as Lenine said. What matter a l
few more dead? Nature can always 4
make more OF them" While, II as was 1
hoped there was trouble enough on the 4
British ships to bring some Of them {
over 70 the Bolsheviks, civilization /
was as good as destroyed. for the turn /
Of America would soon come. And. /
II Trotzky has read Macaulay. he may
have substituted IN his minds eye. for
the New Zealander standing on q \
ruined arch OF London bridge. viewing
the deserted remains OF the METROPOLIS
OF the world Chianman-Copy-
right, 1913. The Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate.
Director general Piez. Of The emergency
neet corporation. EayEE "In an Atlantic
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