Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-12-25
BOLSHEVISN IS
WORLD PROBLEM
GERMAN STATES
Gen. Hoffman Says 1t Can
Be Solved Only BY Armed
Intervention of the Pow
erS Acting in Concert.

ed Press Gen. Wilhelm Hoff-
man, former chief of staff of the
German east army, who played an
important part in the Brest-Li-
tovsk negotiations, declares in an
interview published in the Berlin
Russian Daily Rul, that bolshe-
vism, having ceased to be region
al, is a world problem now which
can be solved only by armed inter-
vention of the great powers acting
in concert. An international army
under the leadership of Pershing.
Joffre or Foch should occupy Pet
rograd, General Hoffman says,
then march on Moscow, which, he
asserts, is bound to fall before any
we'll equipped and properly Off.
cered force.
With the occupation of Moscow,
Trotzky and Lenine would be un-
horsed and their 1900 commissa-
ries overthrown and the members
of the whole regime, General Hoff-
man predicts, would ask safe con-
duct to pass the shortest way to
oblivion" He feels certain that the
Russian workmen would be glad to
desert their present leaders at the
first indication that their over
throw was imminent.
moscow must be spoken to in
the language Of Litovsk, not
in the language of Lloyd George in
London" the general continues.
ITO remodel bolshevism is impos-
sible.
"Any entente attempt to incor-
porate bolshevism in the European
concert would be wrong. Any trade
relations with Russia would only
furnish cloak for red propagan-
da, for bolshivik aims will never be
world revolution.
"Trotzky has studied the history
of the French revolution and knows
the use of the scourge. Under his
system no man can rise to power
from the army; the appearance OF
a new Napoleon in Russia is out of
the question.
"The crash of the soviet regime
would inevitably be followed by a
reign of unparalleled anarchy. The
only thing that remains is armed
intervention by the great powers
As chief of staff of the east army
during the war directed the prop
uganda 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,
1.-THE imperial regime dispatched
Ienine 60 Russia from the Swiss
frontier in a sealed car for a defi'
mite purpose. With our consent
Lenine and his friends disorgan
lied the Russian army Won Kuehl-
mann, CORNER German secretary
for foreign affairs). Count Czernln,
(Austro- Hungarian foreign minis
teri, and ] then closed the Brest-
Lit6vsk treaty so that we could
throw our army against the west
front. While in Rrest we We're con-
WINGED that the bolsheviki could
not hold power more than three
weeks.
I'm spite of the valuable service
Trotzky and Lenine rendered, we
neither knew nor foresaw the dan
ger to humanity from the conse-
uuences of this journey of bolshe-
visits 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 If they fully
reckoned the frishtful danger
which bolshevlsm representsY
General Won Hoffman says that
the army command later realized
the danger and a plan was laid be-
fore the supreme command of the
eastern army for the overthrow OF
bolshevism, but events developed
so rapidly following upon the as
sassination of Count Won Mirbach'
German ambassador to Russia, in
Moscow. and the situation on the
west front had become so critical
that it was impossible to force the
issue.