Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1920-06-19
GENERAL SHUTS SPEAKS
(New York Times)


correspondent at Cape Town He began
with laughing allusion to the lugubrious
prophecies so often uttered in regard to
South Africa
81 am often asked what is the future of
South Africa,' he said cit reminds me
Of the French ambassador who once met
Catherine Of Russia when that remarkable
sovereign was young woman. What an
awful future is written on that brow. re
corded the diplomat in his journal We
also IN this country are supposed to have
an awful future. Something dreadful is
always going to happen.
''Well, we are making great experiment
We are trying to make black and white live
together in peace, and work out civilza-
ton which does justice to both We have
our troubles and our difficulties but we
have not been, | think, altogether ursllc-
cessful. That problem absorbs most of our
attention today.
"This country does not wish to be selfish.
but it wants to keep away from European
entanglements. France, without the assent
OF her partners in the alliance adopts most
drastic military measures against Germany,
calculated one would suppose, to destroy the
last vestige Of government and to bring her
to the condition Of Russia. Russia is in
vaded by Poland, who has declared war upon
her, for that is what it amounts to- Here is
Poland, starving, kept going by foreign
loans, making war on Soviet Russia For
merly Poland was crushed between the up
per and neither millstones of Germany and
Russia. Today her imperiaistic action in
vites repetition Of the old process
AT San Reno you have conferences 90
ing on to resume trade relations with Rus
the safety Of Europe. In Poland you have
STA, which are declared to be necessary for
Marshal Pilsudski making war on Russia,
though large parts Of Poland are starving
league of nations doing that it can not stop
this? 1t ought to have said to Poland,
This can not be- It ought to have pre-
vented these operations, and yet the official
answer in the House Of Commons is, This is
not a new war, but the old one Great
Britain was not consulted and it is not a
case for the league to interfere Who, then,
is to interfere? Poland is an ally member
OF the league Of nations and yet can not
be checked in this enterprise
You can not defeat Russia Napoleon
learned that lesson, and now Denikin and
kolchak have learned it, too. Sooner or
later Pilsudski will likewise learn the les
son. Then when Lenin and Trotzky are
marching on Warsaw he will come to the
league perhaps for help.
am apprehensive [ see only chaos in
all this, no authority or restraint Old en-
pires have disappeared At least they kept
smaller nations in order There is nothing
to put in their place for the great powers
see to it that the league has no vital force
behind it. Are statesmen in Europe really
deeply in earnest about the chaos to which
the Old World is drifting?
From this distance I gather that Boil
shevism is moderating it's violence. One
q ho
time when the fiercest fires die down But
the way to revive Bolshevism, to rally all
Russia to the Soviet government is to in
wade the country and annex large slices
Of it. French missions and American mu-
nitions apparently enable Poland to carry
on her offensive for the present What do
the great powers do? Nothing but shrug
their shoulders