The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-29
THURSDAY, JULY 90, 1920.
A TIMELY WARNING.

While Americans properly receive the
suggestions of a German, especially a
German war officer. with much caution.
General Eric Ludendorff, the famous
German war leader, gives a warning
of Bolshevism that should be needed.
In a statement prepared more than
month ago, but just made public, he
declares that victory for Soviet Rus
STA over Poland would result in Boil
shevism sweeping all of Europe and
eventually the entire world.
His description of its advance over
Europe is that of military man and
may not be understood by the average
citizen, but everyone will comprehend
his statement of the Bolshevists
strength of position when he says:
''Lenine has advanced his lines to
the frontiers of China, Afghanistan,
Persia and India and is now preparing
to continue his victorious progress. "
He continues:
| The prodigious combative resource
of Bolshevist propaganda tackled both
| its far-fung fronts long ago with per
| feet logic. We must get used to re-
| gard propaganda as a combative re-
source of the first rank. The Bolshe-
| wiki make an even more masterful use
| of it than Great Britain, France and
| the United States did to compass the
ruin of Germany during the worldwide
| war.
Their propaganda is stirring the mas
SEES of India to the depths of their
hearts; it is successfully bridging the
| gulf that subsists between the Mos
| lens of India and the disciples of the
native religions. In Asia Minor and
| Persia and all the way into Arabia and
| Persia, the Bolshevist propaganda con-
| ducts its moves in the anti-Christian
pan Islamic spirit.
Poland and Rumania are undermined
| The Bolshevist propaganda operates
with. more caution in Finland, Sweden
i and Norway. These countries are ex-
pected to drop in the lap of Bolshevism
without noticeable effort. The great
! Germany and perhaps Czechoslovakia
and Austria.
Bolshevist propaganda in Germany
assumes a great variety of shapes
With Socialists its preachments advo.
cate war on capital and the establish.
ment of a proletarian dictatorship; with
German Nationalist, its missionaries
demand the deliverance of the country
4 from the entente yOkc manufactur
ers and merchants are promised com
i mercial connections. although every one
knows the Bolsheviki can give nothing
but can only take. Yet we are com
PEELED to acknowledge that the Boil
shevist propaganda is a perfect sue
cess.
That Ludendorff is philosopher a.
well as military man is shown in his
expression "Bolshevism is a monster
that must advance to exist. The
truth of that statement is quickly rec
0gnized because Bolshevism destroy,
wealth, independence and prosperity
wherever it fourishes. From its de
struction ii must advance to new fields
new wealth and new resources for sup
port 1t cannot longer exist in Russia
because it has destroyed Russia IS powe
to produce and to accumulate wealth
Perhaps this is also the greatest weak
ness Of Bolshevism as well as its men
ace When civilization realizes it i
only a force of destruction seeking tn,
wealth and power of civilized peoples
it may rouse itself to crush the de
: stroyer. But the timeliness of Luden
: dorff 5 warning must be admitted AM