The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-13
BOLSHE
F!|zg|GN
POLICY
Program Is Simply to Live and
Let Live, to Work Out
Communism
Alone.
PROPOSAL TO ALLIES
PROPOSAL TO ALLIES
Lenine Offers to Pay off Old Debts
and DemoblIlze Soviet Army
II Peace 10 De-
oIared.
[By Frank ]. Taylor, United Press
Staff Correspondent

[By Frank ]. Taylor, United Press
Staff Correspondent
BERLIN. April 19-(By MaiD -
The foreign policy Of the Russian
bolsheviki is simply to Give and let
live" according to M. Makowski,
their secret agent in Berlin.
"The bolsheviki want to be left
alone to work out communism IN
Russia" he declared.
They do not want to invade other
countries, and, he claimed, are fight
Ing a defensive war. The communist
movement, he said, is considered
strong enough in other countries 70
| tight for itself without the aid OF
the Russians.
Only the AngloSaxon countries
can withstand the bolshevik move
ment in the next decade. in the be-
lief of Makowski Great Britain will
! have her bolshevik troubles, and only
America is free from bolshevism.
She, too, Makowski averred, will
reach the same end-communism-
by different route.
Makowski believes the allied and
central powers will soon make
known their willingness to make
peace. They have high hopes Of the
effects of the report Of William Bull
lttt, whom President Wilson sent to
Moscow. The bolsheviki say Bullitt's
was the first mission to meet them
in an open manner, and that all the
others have tried underhanded meth
ods of bribery and conspiracy.
Lenine's peace proposal to the
allies, through the Bullitt mission,
according to Makowski, was as fol-
lows:
The bolsheviki would agree to pay
all debts of the old regime. This
could be done partly in gold and part
ly in materials.
The bo1sheviki would keep their
armies within the boundaries OF the
present soviet republic until a plebe-
scite could be held in the territories
surrounding 1t. BY this plebiscite
Siberia, Ukrania, the Courland and
other buffer states in the former
Russian empire could decide whether
thew wanted to remain Independent
or Join a Russian confederation. The
Russian government would also agree
to withhold its propagandists from
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paign for bolshevism outside Russia.
Demobilization of the bolsheviki
army would take place as soon as
the allies withdraw their forces.
On the part of the allies it was pro-
posed that they evacuate Russian ter
ritory, cease financing or encouraging
the opponents Of the soviet govern
ment, lift the blockade and permit
the bolsheviki to buy railway equip
ment and other machinery. The boil
sheviki further asked the allies to
recover / 100000 rubles in gold, cap
tured by the Czecho-Slovahs at
Przemysl and now held in Siberia, to
be used in payment Of Russia's debt
to the allies.
"The bolshevild will make no In
vasion of Germany or any other
country" said Makowski. "The Ger
mans and the heads Of other states
know that, even IL the people do not.
| On all sides our enemies are on our
soil, the allies at Archangel and in
southern Russia, and the Germans
along the Russian border. We have
/ an army of little over million
men, all workmen, but commanded
| by officers Of the old army, who
must work and are glad of job.
! They get the same pay as the pri-
Yates But this army will be dis
| banded as soon as the allies and Ger
mans withdraw their armies