The Washington times., 1921-03-15
Truss news IS
! ALL0NE-S|DED.
State Department Reports Are
"Fixed" to Tell Against So
Wet, Hapgood Finds.
by NORMAN HAPGOOD.


] strolled over to the State De-
partment yesterday afternoon, driv-
en- by half-idle impulse to see the
news" from Russia before / have
it dished up for me in the morning
papers. l got hold Of sheet of
paper painfully like what has been
coming from the same source, to be
spread through the United States,
for three years.
sAMENEss IN REPORTS.
More desertions from the Bolshe-
vik ranks are expected That is
news of course. '"The casualty list
on the other side is declared to be
remarkably low" Just as alwayA
A Campaign OF terrorism" is at
tributed to the Bosheviks. Sailors
have been "maltreated" and their
lives endangered" Workmen. always
carefully. according to report, were
shot.
The other side is behaving in n
wholly Iadylike fashion. THE revolu-
tionary leaders at Aronstadt point
out that, in contrast to the action Of
the Bolshevik leaders. they only ar
| rested Communists whom they found
at Kronstadt and have spared their
| lives"
Read carefully every day the re-
| ports from the State Department and
make up your mind whether there is
any attempt made to give an objective
pictu OF what is happening.
have just received information
about man who has come direct
from Moscow with lots of documents.
and / have given notice in the proper
quarter. 1t will be interesting to see
what happens. Shall we begin to
study Russian scientifically. or shall
we continue to treat 1T as we treat
countries with which we are frankly
at war?
HURTING OURSELVES.
BY continuing that policy we can
hurt Russia, perhaps; certainly we
can hurt ourselves; and we can hurt
central Europe most OF all. 1t Is CEN
trail Europe that has been ruined in
large part by our Russion olicy. and
western Europe will share soon what
ever may be the fate of central Eu-
rope.
Certain details in the present Rus
sian developments are not acce ssible,
Tbut the general situation is clear.
There are only two new elements.
oUe Is tnat tne last crop WAS tne
worst in many years.
The other is that when there Is no
actual war the Bolsheviks have more
difficulty in governing. as there is not
the same possibility Of keeping down
the discomfort which is great
However, every effort is being made
by several countries, led by France,
to furnish them with another war. We
do our share with propaganda and
thinly disguised blockade.
BOLsHEvIsM NOT FIXED.
l do not expect anything like Boil
shevism to be the permanent govern
ment of Russia. 1t will either end or
have gotten into power, as has hap
pened several times recently in
France, they have proceeded rapidly
to modify their Socialism. That is
what would have happened in Russia,
before this, IL we had behaved ration
ally.
One of the simple facts in the whole
situation, however, is that there is at
present no other organized forces
capable OF governing Russia 1t 10
Lenin or anarchy. and some elements
I'm the outside world would much pre-
fer anarchy. But it is not the outside
worlds business to prevent evolution.
Could not our policy be fairly well
described in the words of G. d. II.
Cole, one of the ablest publicists in
England? He says that conditions in
central Europe ARE immensely
worsened by the term alton of the
allied governments, that no matter
how many of the workers may be
starved in Russia, or deprived of en-
ployment and half starved here, the
destruction of the Soviet power-that
is, of the power of our fellow-workers
in Russia--is the aim that must be
kept principally in mind by allied
statesmen"