The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-01-14

"SAVE RUSSIA OR PEACE
MEET WILL BE HELD IN VAIN
Confidential Agent Of President
Masaryk, Just Out Of Russia,
Sees in Intervention Only
Hope for End of Warfare
BY KENNETH w. PAYNE
N. e. A. Staff Corespo ndent.

BY KENNETH W. PAYNE
N. e. A. Staff Correspondent.
New York.-"A league of nations,
future peace. world democracy, all the
great ideals we. have fought for, are
impossible while the Bolsheviki re.
main in power. Yet the power of the
Eolsheyik today is greater than it
has ever been. Nothing 1t a police
force Of several hundred thousand al.
lied troops can save the situation in
Russia. Unless Russia Is saved. the
world cannot be saved-the very
work of the peace conference is like
ly to so for naught"
This is the message brought to
America by Captain Ferdinand Pis-
ecky, of the CzechO. .Slovakian nation
al 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 representa-
tive to the United States.
Pisecky, formerly a professor in the
University OF Prague, Bohemia, is a
brilliant political observer, as we'll as
a soldier.
Captain Pisecky believes tho real
issue Of world peace will be settled
according as the allies help or desert
the Czecho.Slovaks in Siberia.
In military way" he said, "thc
Bolsheviki are today stronger than
ever. They have probably 10000 good
soldiers against US in tho east We
number only 10000. and have suffered
untold hardships.
Army Of Trotzky
Rules Over Russia.
people wonder why the 'Bolshev-
Xxi have held on so long. The secret
lies first in this military force Trotz-
army. Under Kerensky, all discip-
line went to pieces, and all Russia be-
came disorganized. So it happens
that one small, autocratic force, we'll
disciplined, Is able to rule over the
great unOrganized mass of the Rus
slams.
THE statement that allied interven-
tion would drive the Russian people
into the arms of the Bolsheviki comes
generally from people who do not
know the facts first hand. The peo-
pie are no more prO-Bolshevik than
they are pro-German. and have the
greatest friendship for the allies.
You ask whether the Bolsheviki
are proGerman. Why try to probe
their inner motives? It is the logic
of fact, the actual results of their
regime, that count. These are unQues.
tionably' pro.German. -
"'The allies could sweep the whole
Bolshevik regime off 81 the backs Of
the Russian people would they con.
sent to send a police force into the
nation. About 100000 or 100000 men
would do the work. Let one force
move in from the Black Sea, another
down upon Petrograd, and third from
the east, with our Czecho-Slovak boys
as nucleus.
Suspicion Holds Up
japanese Intervention.
""The small American force Is
around Vladivost0k. The Japanese
force of II divisions, about 10000
men, is much farther west. at Chita.
And our Czecho-Slovak force, in dire
need, lies thousands of miles still fur
ther on in the Urals.
"Why do not the Japanese come
to our aid? Because they refuse to
move further while their motives are
suspected, while one of the allied ma
tions refuses It's support.
"Why cannot America be 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 un-
derstanding between the Japanese and
all the allied peoples.
; III, in frank accord with the Jap
anese. the allies drive out the Boil
sheviki, the future of world peace
is assured If they do not. 1t Is grave
" imperiled. No league of nations
will be possible. Bolshevism. If not
destroyed, will spread to Germany.
Terrorism will sweep all central Eu.
rope. It will flare up In Japan. Ana
this Bolshevism is an evil parallel to
the destroyed evil of German militar-
ism. It is the dictatorship of one
class over all others, enforced 'by
blood and iron: 49,.
To-day only the small, outnum-
,bered, decimated Czecho.Slovak force
stands as a bulwark between it and
civilization. And when I left, our
bows were scattered in three groups
and had given up all idea OF fighting
further against the world menace OF
Eolshevism unless supported by the
allies" -..' --- ...., Il; E., -
70.
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