The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-12-24
'BOLSHEVISM NOW
WORLD PROBLEM
Gen. Hoffman Points Out So
luton Which Calls for
Armed intervention.
SUGGESTS cHIEFTAINs

Berlin. Dec. 2t.--(A. P.)--Gen. vii.
helm Hoffman, former chief Of stan OF
the German east army, who played ar
Important part In the Brest- Lltovsh
negotiations, declares In an Interview
published in the Berlin Russian Daily
iSui that bolshevism. having ceased Il
be regional, is a world problem now,
which can be solved only by armed In
tervention by the great powers acting
IN concert. An international army un-
der the leadership OF PershIng, Joffrs
or Foch should occupy Petrograd, Gen.
Hoffman says, then march on Mos
cow. which he asserts is bound to fall
before any well-equipped and properly
officered force.
With the occupation q Moscow
Trotzky and Lenine would be un-
horsed and their 5000 commissars
overthrown and the members OF the
whole eegime, Gen. Hoffman predicts.
would Ask safe conduct to pass the
shortest way TO oblivion" He feels
certain that the Russian worlmen
would be glad to 6~sert their present
leaders at the first indication that their
overthrow was imminent.
Moscow must be spoken to In the
language Of Brest-Litovsk, not In the
language OF Lloyd George In London
the general continues.
To remodel bolshevism is impossible
Any entente attempt TO incorporate boil
shevism In the European concert would
be wrong Any trade relations with
Russia would furnish a cloak for red
propaganda, for bolshevik aims will ever
be word revolution.
"Trotzlsy has studied the history OF
the French revolution and knows the
use OF the scourage, Under his system
no man can rise TO power from the
army. The appearance Of q new Ma
poleon In Russia is cut OF the question.
THE crash OF the soviet regime would
Inevitably be followed by a reign of un-
paralleled anarchy. The only thing that
remains Is armed intervention by the
great powers. As chief of stan Of the
east army during the war, 1 directed the
propaganda against the Russian army,
The general staff naturally made use Of
every possible means TO break through
the Russian front, One OF these means
was poison gas; another was Lenine.
The imperial regime dispatched Lee
nine TO Russia from the Swiss frontier
In a sealed car for n definite purpose.
With our consent, Lenine and his friend
disorganized the Russian army. Won
Kuehlmann 0ormer German secretary
for foreign affairsl, Count Czernin (Aus-
tro- Hungarian minister), and / then
closed the Bresck ?Litovsk treaty SO that
we could throw our army against the
west front. While In Brest we were
convinced that the bolsheviki could not
hold power fnom than three weeks
"On my word OF honor as q German
general, In spite Of the valuable service
Trotzity and Lenine rendered, we neither
knew nor foresaw the danger to hui
manity from the consequences OF this
journey or bolshevists to Russia At
that time We weighed the matter with
as little consideration as the entente
does now.
would the allies and especially Lloyd
George carry on negotiations and make
concessions II they fully reckoned the
frightful danger which bolshevism re-
spects?"
Gen. Won Hoffmann says that the
army command later realized the dan
ger and a plan waH laid before the sii-
preme command Of the eastern army for
the overthrow Of bolshevisni, but events
,deyeioped so rapidly following the as
Hassination OF Count Won MifbRciRt the
German Ambassador TO Russia, III Mos
COW, and the situation on the west front
had become so critical that II was Inn
possible to force the Issue.