Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-16
British SPY, Ele0en Years
In Russia, Declares Thar
S0Uiet Regime Is Doomed
BY SIR PAUL DUKES
Late Chief of British Secret Intelli-
a.ence Service in Soviet Russia

| so 1npid, SO lightning a transf1gur-
alton from the pomp and splendor OF
| an imperial court to the drab, color
"Soviet?"
Or in what other country could a
| political camariila, numbering a few
| hundreds, or at most thousands, In
a population of a hundred and fifty
millions, re-establish the rule OF
czarism in all it's features except
civil power on the re-enliste ted czaris:
| police-and yet masquerade to an
| ignorant and bewi1dered- world as a
| government "of workers and peas
| ants?"
Or where else could a regime
ings, and free elections, which sup
| presses independent trade union
| ism, which eXterminates free CO.
operation, pose as the dictatorship
| of the Proletariat?"
The Russian people. the Russian
| workers, call it among themselves
the dictatorship over the proIetariat
| They say it is "czarism inside out
| Truly is Russia the country where
! the impossible is not only possible
! but happens!
He will be daring prophet who
ventures into the realm Of prognos'
| tication with regard to things Rus
san I have lived in that country
eleven years, I have known peopls
Of every class from the court to
| the peasantry, when the car Tell /
| tionary rule, yet I would consider
myself intrepid indeed If I dared to
predict with exactitude what the flu
| ture of Russia will be.
I leave that to tourists with no
| knowledge of the Russian language
| and as lite of Russian ways and
! n Pn1ShPVlk nos
| pitality for a week or two and then
| come back and write books about 1t.
But since the new year there have
| been one or two developments IN the
| Russian situation which are of sig
nificance and which throw. some
| light on the possibilities of the I'M
mediate future.
| There was recently a serious pop"
ular revolt in Petrograd (the con"
| tinuation Of long series) when an
attempt was made to compel the
| Communists to alter their regime
and grant the liberties now denied
| to Russian citizens.
The revolt was suppressed (as
such revolts always will be) because
| it was premature and because the
means Of coercion, in the form of a
| highly -deveIoped and unscrupulous
police system, with regiments Of for
| eign hirelings, are all In the hanas
| of the government, while no one IN
Russia is allowed to bear arms I'M
| less he be a professed BolsheVlk:
though it was, compelled Lenine to
make a public declaration Of the
| Communist dogma, the right or Tree
| trading between individuals.
The first principle of Communism
| is the suppression Of all private Ell.
| terprise, Individual initiative, ana
| personal ambition in business. This
| IS the policy which (though, it has
never been fully enforced) has re-
| duced Russia to starvation.
Lenine now even talks OF conceu-
ing a small measure Of independence
to the Cooperative societies, that
| great democratic institution hated py
| the Bolsheviks as being capitals
| tic,' but beloved of the people pc
cause it used to provide for ther
needs cheaply
tom Of forced reuuisitioning from
| the peasantry has failed utterly. so
he says he will allow just little
nrivate enterprise and business am
! hilton. Temporarily" until the Com
munist cart is pulled out OF the
"The world revolution says Len
! inc to his Communist retainers, rs
more tardy than we expected. we
must make a compromise with. capt.
| talism in order that Russian INDUS
try be restored. The capitalists Will
do for us what we Communists can
not do for ourselves. Meanwhile we
will foster the world revolution pJ
| conspiracy, bribery, plotting, and Sc
ditious agitation" e.
| Indeed, the world revolution IS
tardier than Lenine expected Inc ~
Russians for the last three years.
1t was always to happen. next
week" next month";" sometimes IN
England first, sometimes IN FRANCE
sometimes in America ,. ~
I, myself, when I was living IN
soviet Russia disguised as a Bolshe-
| vil1 participated in the celebration
of the world revolution in Petrograd
on a, hot Sunday in July, 1919.
| sat on a table in a great halI'
| surrounded by workmen and sololers,
and tapped my shirt UP and down as
! others did for ventilation WINE the
| Rolshevik orators announced the ear
! Nv, transfer of the seat OF the Boil
| shevik government to Paris, Rome
| or Berlin. ,-.7-.
And how bewildered the Bolshev1ks
were when they discovered later that
| this positive world-revolutlon haon
come off after all!
NO, the world-revolution has oeen
| one Of a series of colossal m1scai-
culations on Lenin's part. was not
his dream of forcing Communism
upon a peasant-peopled Russia
| huge miscalculation? Was not the
Over-running of Europe last year Wy
the Red army a miscalculat1on? has
not Lenin's reading of the psycholo-
CIV of western democracies been a
Discrimination? His letter to the
British workers last summer det!-
nitely decided them against a1flll-
alton with the Bolshev1k Interna-
| tionaI. Miscalculations, one after
nd co n h latest
of holding out an olive branch 10
For do the English and other Eu-
reopean capitalists, hard-headed
| business men with knowledge OF
| Russia who are now contemplating
tentative dealings with that coun-
try, really intend to booster up the
Bolshevik government in order that
| an ultimate world-revolution may be
| FASTENED?
granting of the right of free trading
and the restoration of freedom to
the Cooperative Societies, both Of
which are essential to the restora-
! ton of Russia as a whole. will be
| the suicide of the Bolshevik govern
ment.
They see that the already exist
| ing split over this compromise with
| in the Bolshevik ranks will be wild
ened, for Lenln and hfaSSln 1aVoF
this compromise, while Trotzl1y, Zin-
oviev and the madden fanatics are
| against it.
| They realize that external agrees
sion has only served to unite the
| warning factions in common bond
of se1f-defense. They see that the
removal of the barriers shutting off
Russia from the rest of the world
will result in the full truth of ac7
tuaI conditions becoming universally
! known, and this fact alone will more
than neutralize the Bolshevik prop
uganda designed to depicte Soviet
Russia as workers paradise.
| They foresee that with the resus-
citation of normal intercourse, re-
sulting in better feeding, the y vi
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