El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-02-04
Allies Must Make Peace With BoIsheUiki
On Lenine; s OtUn Terms Or Face Situation
Which They Must Confess Actually Is War

consent to make peace with the Boil
shevfsts on Lenine's conditions or
face a situation in which they viii
find themselves actually at war with
the bolshevists, obliged to confess to
their own publics that It is war
1t means, too, an enormous en-
hnncemenf Of bolshevfst prestige.
Il Is n demonstration, bound TO
have tremendous domestic effect.
that the bOlsheFists are not only
masters at home. but able to take
a high tone with Europe.
And IL is the British who must
face the problem with the first
anxiety. II Lloyd George does not
consent to make peace with
Lenine, Lenine, striking hands
with all the various MOslem tribes
ali the way from Persia to Az
EhnniStan, can level a blow at
India. He can even use the Mo-
hammedan element to spread fur
Their disorder in India itself At
the same time he can use the
Turks and the Kurds In Asia
Minor to prepare the way for an
attack upon MesOpOtamia. upon
BaEdad at once and Cairo ulti-
mnfely.
Britain then viii make peace with
the bolshevisus II she can. even II
humiliation in it But will the boil
shevists, will Russia make peace. or
will any peace be more than a truce2
Now, If the analogy Of the French
revolution holds good. two things are
likely. First, we shall see strong
Russia develop in the next few years.
and, secondly, that strong Russia viii
be hostile to her neighbors. and. con-
scious of her strength and Convinced
OF the efficacy of her new economic
and political doctrines, will begin to
overflow on all sides as did France
May Renounee RED Ideas-
OF course 1t may be that Russia
IN regaining unity will become pa
cific, renounce the bolshevist ideas
and resume her place alongside the
western nations. But such a course
is by no means certain.
Russia may make truce now but
is there any real reason why she
should make anything more2 Not
only viii the Russians of the future
see all the acquisitions Of their prede-
cessors since the days Of Peter the
Great, himself lost, but they viii see
them in infirm hands, held by races
incapable of maintaining their grip
II Germany would consent 10
stand with the west against Rus
sin, the Russian peril would not
assume the same proportions.
But Germany and Russia may
easily have common objects or
objects which do not conflict.
They may be As ready to divide
Alexander ut TiIEit. Granted even
that Germany would resist a Rus
sia purely bOIsheEist. the more
that Russia moves toward nation
aiistfc ideas, the easier would be
nm association.
Moreover, Germany needs Russia
and Russia needs Germany on the
economic side The real hope Of Ger
man recovery lies in the possibility
OF exploiting Russian resources.
Any association between Germany
and Russia infalibly menaces the
British. even more than the French.
because. while the French might have
to forego any resistance to such a
combination. make terms and enter
a continental group as did the sew
eral European powers in the Napole-
onic period, there are no terms for
the British. either from the Germans
or the Russians.
AS for the Germans. the terms OF
peace have convinced them that Brit
ish commercial jealousy provoked the
war, that Britain attacked Germany
in order to destroy a dangerous rival
British Must Face PeriIs-
The fact IS, then fairly obvious that
the British have to face in the future
two grave periods The failure Of the
allied policy as to Russia or rather
the indifference and absence Of policy
has resulted in the extinction Of Brit
ish hopes that Russia would be
broken up into several states and thus
turned aside from Asiatic ambitions
The new Russia will have both a
strong hatred for the British. who
have been the champions Of Russian
weakness. and a renewed desire to
follow old pathways. to regain lost
provinces and to seek anew an exit
on warm water at the Dardanelles
and an approach 10 India through
Herat and KabuL
Underlying all this is the serious
fact that a new Russia is beginning
to emerge, a Russia by no means
restored TO what we regard as ecO-
nomic OF political sanity, but a Rus
sia beginning to combine new ideas
with old systems, as the French did
In their revolution. This new Russia
Is becoming hourly more nationalistic
In spirit and both bolshevist and ma
tionalist Russia have all sufficing
reasons for hating the western allies
and for making war upon them TO
regain lost provinces and to fulfil
Did aspirations.
And all of this leads straight to
with Great Britain. leads TO
India, Egypt and Mesopotamia- The
single question now is whether the
0roffer Of peace would now satisfy
Lenine or, even II accepted for the
permanently satisfy Russian
lationalism and Russian PATRIOTISM
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