Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-07

chalk, Denikine and Yudenitch'in con-
junction. or any one of them sepa-
rately can break the military power
of the boIshevists; second, that the
border races are no longer willing to
continue the fight and are prepared
to make peace with the bolshevists;
third peace between Russia and the
border states will inevitably leave
the great powers no choice but TO
give up the fight against the bolshe-
visits in their turn. since they viii
have no avenue of approach by land,
once the border states have made
peace.
We have, then. to recognize that the
Russian policy of the nations which
were allied and associated in the war
against Germany has completely Iaii
ed. The bolshevists remain IN control
of the wasted frame of Russia.
What have been the causes OF the
great failure, which leaves the Dol
shevist menace the most threatening
circumstance in present world analrs!
suddenly found themselves with large
armies, which could be almost inden-
nitely munitioned and armed Dy the
war material taken from the enemy.
At the same moment the boishevis.
influence in Russia had sunk 10 tne
misery. disorganization had stirred
even the passive Russian millions 10
protest. All there was left OF the DOL
sheyist military strength was shaky
facade, supplied by ill-organized ana
badly equipped mercenaries, coliec,eo
by the indefatigable Trotsky.
what was then necessary and alone
necessary to the liberation OF RUS
STA and the world from the bolsheVlsI
nightmare was prompt and extensive
military concentration against Rus
STA. Half a million men. placeo On
the Russian fringes. in Finland, IN the
baltic states, in Rumania, in Poland,
to serve as the foundation OF armies
tn he raised by these states, Woulo
have sufIiced to lay the foundation LOT
a spring campaign. which woulo pS
yond question have broken the oah
of bolshevism.
Would Not Fight Russia.
But the moment the allied and asso-
ciated governments turned 10 ms
natural and logical course .hey "ese
confronted by two impossible op-
stacles. The soldiers of the various
allied armies would not fight any
more and the people of the various
countries would not consent TO the uSS
of troops. The nations who NAG
fought Germany and won were r
mn with war. They were resolfsu
W anv further sacrifices or SUI
fering. claar
and reasonable policy was eliminated.
Mutinies by allied troops, protesN ~
the various legislatures, even nl9ls
serious threats OF domestic DIS.
sfan Campaign to halt. There W.
. ,nomerf when the allies hoped tnat
&c Army of the United states, WniSn
had relatively suffered least: Wouio ne
available for the Russian lop. out 'h''
notion was promptly oanisneo max.
;ne war upon the bolshevists was
making peace with them. But heLe
again the obstacles were 1mpassaple.
The French and British peopies
hitter in the extreme at the RUSSIA
desertion. which had cost tnent :,
r,andous losses and almost resulted IN
tha loss of the war. Moreover. the
ho1sheyist doctrine aimed at Destroy
mo the political and economic 1aprlc
~ ALI of the western nations. IL was.
in its essence, a state OF war asoinS
western ideas. Therefore, IL was ii
nossihle to make peace without IN
pitinp further dangers. while popular
sentiment had a violent preJuoiGe
against taking hands that were stlll
bloody.
aCordon Sanitnire."
There was nothing left but COM
nromise. and. as a result. we have had
one miserable compromise AFTER an
other. each ending in more complete
failure than that which precedeo. On
the initiative of the French prime
minister. the western nations sought
f;rst to erect that famous Gordon sani-
taire. so much discussed in recent
months-that is. they undertook. by
nuftine a certain number OF small al
lied garrisons in vital spots, IKE
Archangel and Odessa, and by lendlns
their aid to the Poles. Firms, Lithu-
arians etc. to erect a wall separating
the bolshevists from western Europe
One fatal detail of this plan was to
hermit the German army OF occupa-
tion to remain in the Baftlc prov
inces pending the creation OF an al
lied army to relieve it,
effort to give effective military aid to
the several Russian leaders who had
never submitted to the bolsheVlst RUE
and were making a gallant. il hope
less, fight against it.
Fight Against Bolshevism Lost.
The simple truth is that we, the
western nations. have lost our night
against the bolshevists. so far as
their possession of Russia is con-
cause our peoples and our soldiers
were unwilling to make new sacrl--
fees: because it was impossible TO
send armies to Siberia: Archangel ana
the Baltic provinces. We have failed,
too. because of the obstinacy of the
anti-bolshevist elements in Russia in
refusing to recognize the demands of
the border races.
It is a bitter and a dangerous thing
to make peace with the bolshevists,
oil
fight. To maintain the blockade with
out sending armies will merely mean
the slow but sure extinction or the
independence Of the border states ana
the arrival of the bolsheyists at the
hour comes, if it does, the Germans
NAV find a way to combine with the
bolshevists in an attack upon the
vast.
The peril win be the greater if; as
modification Of bolshevist insanity
and the infusion in the present con-
troll of certain elements of conserva-
tism In the case of France. by the
end of the revolutionary period prac-
ticaIly all the elements in the nation,
save the extreme royalists. themselves
negligible. had rallied to the con-
sulate or at least to the empire. This
did not lessen, but actually increased,
the danger of Europe, because an or.
aspirations was not J IS dangerous
than a revolutionary France striving
to preserve it's existence menaced by
foreign invasion.
With the moral agitation made on
behalf of bolshevism in certain lib
eral" quarters ] am not in the least
Bolshevism seems to me
a doctrine subversive of all our west
ern civilization. That the Russians
are entitled to bolshevistic institu-
lions, if they desire them. I concede,
but the very essence of the bolshevis-
a.. xlnatHina 10 communist of the world