The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-02-02
LONDON TO OPEN TRADE,
by Milton Bronner.)
N. z. A. Special Cable,

by Milton Bronner.)
N. z. A. Special Cable.
le.ton. Feb. Although not Of
....v admitted. the lifting of the
.... s.H against the bolshevists means
....- rha control of the soviet govern
u.t suroushout Russia and most of
siberia is recognized by the great
N -pwsr-.
Hah.nd the dictates of humanity
demanding that Russian peasants be
supplied with certain vital necessities,
n .ac hard, cold facts or soviet tri-
mpa.
Fl was a question of recognizing the
raw Russian government, or of fight
4 ta4 +. TO a finish.
AuI ne war-weary. peoples of west
crs Europe are decidedly in no mood
To- ac hurled against a mighty nation
with whom they have no quarrel.
France is passive, but worried by the
"n0 of events because such a large
.'o.l of French capital is tied up in
the sccurities of the old Russian mon
er-hy There is nothing to do but
30 accept conditions with resignation,
hut French financiers would like to
6now how far the soviet regime will
goo toward redeeming the debts con-
raoted by the oyerthrown rulers of
Russia.
Three mighty good reasons actuated
the declaration Of Great Britain that
4 rade relationships with the Russian
Il opera tive societies" would be opened
First the solid unwillingness of the
i !eople to engage in further military
s adventlTes.
second the danger of boIshevist
4 Alghanistan and India unless a COM
4 promise is arrived at.
Third, the pressing need of Russian
food products to decrease the rising
cost of living, and of raw materials
rom Russia for English industries
The Northcliffe press has bitterly
sSaiIed Lloyd. George for shifting
1ound Between Northcliffe and the
PREMIER has been waged a contest. of
H,ujtion and judgment in reckoning
sas viii of the British people.
1t is generally felt that in this latest
moge. Lloyd George has played wisely
li" hasspublic opinion with him.
English publications have printed
II maps showing the facilities offered
British commerce by the various Rus
slan ports: Odessa for grain; Petro-
grad for rallow, hides and timber; Mos
cow for hemp and flax.
The policy of ignoring the spreading
power OF tho soviet government was
ringing nothing to Great Britain save
EMBARRASSING complications. a parIi-
mentary majority for effective war
are against bolshevism would be inn
possible to obtain. Such campaign
WOULD mean calling out again the full
man power of Great Britain, and the
r-opIe are in no temper for such a pro-
A4ot unless their very homes were
menaced by a foe.
The soviet armies threaten Poland
which is starving and other infant
r.pgolics and sections in which there
4r~ oil fields, some of them already in
tue hands of the bolshevists.
T. IS freely predicted that the secret
terms ON which Great Britain viii agree
+. lead the world in giving soviet Rus
si+ g place in the commercial family
"f Hajjous viii be that the bolshevists
aHaujuu their propaganda among the
IaslonS i'm Afghan and among the
aativc+ of India, a program which al
r''iE seriously jeopardizes the peace
:dl. wcu-ncj1g of the empire.
The British government claims that
tr- blockade is being lifted only TO
"tmit of trade with the cooperative
societies. OF course, these societies can
@" business only through the sufferance
St t1" soviet government
Steadily rising prices compel Eng
la'a % look elsewhere than to the
la@ea states and Argentina for food
supplies Formerly a quarter of the
world supply of exportab1e wheat
SHno rom Russia.
if.., st and other textile mill centers
ar &. moring for Russ flax.
Ha-!nd's attitude is not to be mis-
G'"a for one of weakness, The giant
..-.-E S.2 fleet is being sent to protect
Ne b1cum oil fields and the approach
" 1s.a. The allied policy, in effect,
'"-o~tees to soviet Russia:
Sly within your own frontiers.
mod5Ie with our people by pro-
-".. Ia. and you can have peace and
' N"ofully does Russia need that
"."' trade, With the great mass
..- .'.'n-lower removed from agri-
r. "A" Industry on the long bat
..- sda is hungry and poor. Cut
'"' .a- manufactured products
pa.. i. uo1s, she is suffering des-
IN mr.. For example there have been
IA i 1N a haif million typhus cases
NS' and no dis:nfectants.