The sun., 1919-04-27

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MAYORS and even Colonies, of the Ger
man armies, and comprise in their
ranks some Of the most unsavory ad-
veut'rNrs Of Europe and America, the
very scum Of the New and of the Old
World
Tho Food Situation.
BY furnishing American supplies OF
food to the Boishevik leaders through
Herbert Hoover, and through the Nor
wegian explorer Nansen, who has been
invited by the American delegation in
Paris to act as its intermediary, the
starving, famine stricken people OF
Russia may not be relieved, and the
powers Of Lentne, Of Trotzky and Of
their fellow tyrants may be increased.
Whatever supplies OF American
food are sent to Russia should he
transmitted to Admiral Kolchak and
to his Government at Omsk for honest
distribution. and incidentally to
strengthen his hands.
1t must be borne in mind that any
action on the part Of the Allied Pow
ers that can be construed as in any
way favoring the cause of Bolshevism
binders the restoration Of law and or
der in Russia 1t serves to hearten
the Bolsheviki and to discourage their
adversaries, and the recent fall OF
Odessa to the Reds and their recov-
cry Of a portion OF the Black Sea
coast has been attributed, not without
cause, to the report sent out from the
International Peace Congress at Paris
! that the Entente had resolved to wash
its hands altogether Of Russia and to
leave her to her fate. On the other
hand, Admiral Kolchak's subsequent
successes and the signal defeats
which he has inflicted upon the Reds
have been aided by the knowledge
that France. Great Britain and Italy
had resolved to recognize publicly and
officially his government as the only
one in Russia
It Is not troops that Admiral Kol-
chalk needs, but 1t is arms, munitions
aircraft, food supplies. but above
everything else the recognition of the
Great Powers of the Entente, not only
France, Great Britain, Japan and
Italy, but also the United States,
For Russia in Europe and Rus
STA in Asia offer the greatest oppor-
tunities in the world for American
trade and American industry and the
richest fields for the exploitation OF
her boundless latent wealth and re-
sources by means OF American enter
prise and capital Economic control
OF Russia Is the industrial prize for
which Germany plunged the world
into n thu nP
less we give our support to Admiral
kolchak in the way indicated above
Germany will. In spite Of her military
and naval defeat. attain the main OBJ
ject of her fight against civilization
through her friends. and her instru-
ments, the Bolsheviki.
OF the leaders of Bolshevism in Rus
STA the one that really counts IL
Lenine. He is an extraordinary in
dividual, and the movement would col
lapse far more speedily were he re-
moved. His real name is vladimir
ulinoff and, like other radical leaders
in the past, he Is a hereditary noble.
whose father was Councillor of State,
with tho title OF Excellency, and his
mother the heiress of territorial
noble who left her large properly
To all those who have at heart the
success OF the Peace Congress at Paris
"A congress of unrivalled opportmi-
ties for the good OF mankind--it must
he source OF congratulatiOn that
three OF the great Powers of the En-
tente at any rate have, by recognizing
kolchak and the Omsk Government.
contributed TO the saving of Russia
instead OF abandoning her TO her fate
or washing their hands OF that dis-
tressful nation, with its near 200. 600
900 or population. All OF the Powers
or the Entente owe deep debt NJ
gratitude to Russia Had II not been
for her successful operations on the
eastern front, under the direction OF
Generalissimo Grand Duke Nicholas
Nicholaiovitch during the first two
years Of the war; when she came
/ within seventy miles of Berlin and
within nifty miles OF Budapest, the
Kaiser would have been able to throw
all the military forces OF Germany and
OF Austria Hungary against France
in such an overwhelming fashion
| that by sheer power of numbers he
would have been able to reach Paris
and Calais, and thence England, and
might then have been in a position to
impose his wishes npon the United
States from tho banks Of the Thames
at Westminster or from Windsor
Castle, We we're spared that by Rus
ala. Had the Entente left her wholly
to her fate, unmindfuI of her past scr-
vices. in its deliberations in Paris. the
Peace Congress would have passed
! down to history as a failure.