The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-01-31
SAVE RUSSIA on
PEACE MEET WILL
Be HELD IN Vain
By KENNETH w. PAYNE.


New York, Jan. 30.--"A league of
nations. world democracy. all the great
ideals we have fought for, are impos-
sible while the Bolsheyiki remain in
power. Yet the power of the Bolshe-
Wiki today is greater than it has ever
been. Nothing but a police force of
several hundred thousand allied troops
can save the situation in Russia. Tn
less Russia is saved, the world cannot
be saved-the very work of the peace
conference is likely to go for naught'
This is the message brought 10
America by Captain Ferdinand Pise-
cky, of the Czecho-Slovakian national
council. who comes straight out of the
chaos of Siberia, via Japan. and is on
his way to join President Masaryk.
of the new Czecho- Slovakia, for whom
he has been confidential representative
to the United States.
Pisecky, formerly professor in the
University at Prague. Bohemia, Is
brilliant political observer, as well as
as a soldier.
Captain Pisecky believes the real is
sue of world peace viii be settled ac-
cording as the allies help or desert the
Czecho- Slovaks in Siberia
I'm a military way" he said, the
Bolsheviki are today stronger than
soldiers against us in the east We
number only 10000. and have suffered
untold hardships.
.People wonder why the Boisheviki
have held on SO long. The secret lies
first in this military force. TrotZky
has re-esta blished discipline in army
Under Kerensky, all discipline went
to pieces, and all Russia became dis
organized. So it happens that one
small autoeratic force, well disciplined,
is able to rule over the great unor
ganized mass of the Russians.
The statement that allied interven-
ton would drive the Russian people
into the arms of the Bolsheviki comes
generally from the people who do not
know the facts first hand. The peo-
pie are no more -Bo!sheviki than
they are pro-Gerrlan and have the
greatest friendship for the allies.
You ask whether the Bolsheviki
are pro-German. Why try 10 probe
their inner motives? 1t is the logict
of fact, the actual results of their
regime, that count. These are unques-
tionahly pro-German.
THE allies could sweep the whole
Bolsheviki regime off of the backs of
the Russian people would they consent
to send n police force inS, the nation.
About 100000 or 100000 men would do
the work. Let one force move in from
the Black Sea, anotht down upon
Petrosrad and a third from the east,
with our Czecho- Sloyak boys as a
nucleus.
THE small American force is around
Fladivestok. The Japanese force of
IL divisions, about 10000 men, is much
farther west at Chita. And our Czech
Slovak force. in dire need. lies thou
sands of miles still further on, in the
Urals.
WHY do not the japanese come to
our aid? Because they refuse to move
further. while their motives are sus-
pectefi. while one of the allied nations
refuses it's support.
why cannot America he business
like with Japan? Why not lay all the
cards on the table? Ask Japan in
concrete terms what she wants. and
what she will pay. 1t wants only such
frankness to establish complete UNI
derstanding between the japanese and
all the allied peoples.
IF. in frank accord with the Jap
anese, the allies drive out the Bolshe-
viki,sth future Of world peace is as
sured. If they do not it is gravely
imperiled. No leage of nations will be
possible. RoIshevisn, If not destroy
ed. will spread to Germany. Terror
ism will sweep all central Europe. It
will flare up In Japan. And this Boil
shevism is an evil parallel to the de-
stroyed evil of German militarism It
is the Dictatorship of one class over
all others enforced by blood and
iron.
To-day only the small out-number-
ed, decimated Czecho- Slovak force
stands as a bulwark between it and
civilization. And when I left, our
boys were scattered in three groups
and had given up all idea of fighting
further against the world menace of
BolsheviSm unless supported by the