The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-03

armament demanded. The answer IS not quite simple. It is true that Ger mans longing for return of the old regime are indignant at the demand for the disbandment of some of the older and more cherished military orr ganizations, and this indignation has become propagated into other fright ened souls. These people naturally well come any sort of a coup detat as being proof of necessity for maintaining big army to secure order. They also support any such coup d'etat whenever they have 4 chance.
 PLAYING WITH FIRE
 It must be remembefed that thou sands of older ones believe it is neces- sary to bring the ulcer of borshevism" quickly to a head in order to cure the national body. Some of these persons may have been playing with fire this Easter week. In every country every standing army tries to prove it's in- Responsibility to the government The police troops try the same thing every now and then.
 A similarity about the new series of crimes--the dynamite attacks on law courts, on railway bridges and monu ments, is a striking coincidence. It is also a notable fact that no great damage has been caused anywhere, Yet it would be entirely wrong to as- sume that the outbreaks are police dodge or a "Potsdam maneuver," as the French say If it is a maneuver at all it is a maneuver from Moscow. Le- nine and his friends believe that they represent 70 per cent of all the inhab itants of the world and that capital istic management'' is shaking in it's foundations. They believe that pro- letarian world revolution will lead to the establishment of a world republic. supported by soyiets.
 BRITISH DECEIVED
 Lloyd George the British prime min
 ster. is deceiving either himself or his listeners when he says that the nego- tiation of commercial treaties by the soviet government and the granting of certain concessions to capitaNstl> states Is an indication that the drosEG of a world revolution and world fse public is dead. It is very much atsNc and Gestnan communists have haeA to secure it's effectiveness Of this there can be no doubt Whs as yet, untried leaders of this mVye ment have an ambition to prove their effectiveness, or at least their ccaizr age. And just now the Muscovites need a tonic for the tired impatiencs of their followers who have been hun RrY and COiQ again LITOQ6A LILO tAtkt winter and from the rumb1ings are asking how much longer they mHaE wait for the proclaimed world revolu tion
 Their long isolation from the world and. their tyrannical powers seem to have blinded the eyes of even the clev- crest of the Russians and there is no denying that their pupils in the Ger man section of the Third Interna- tionale have become presumptuous having had a favorable elec- tion result They hope that because 200, 900 communistic votes were cast in Berlin they will have the masses be- hind them They wanted to begin a $ eneral strike the last day before Eas- ter leaving the townspeople without light, water, cars. postal service, tele- phone or foodstuffs and to- force those already cowed to give up their political power
 FINDS NO FAVOR
 That was mistake. In spite of all the meetings and the procIamations. which took on a hysterical and gro tesque form of exaggeration, the strike proposal has not, up to the present time, found favor anywhere. A lot of young, crazy headed unemployed, sl sort of motley crowd, participated in the attempt in the revolt The mass of the organized workers not only re- fused to join, but condemned the dem- onstrators aloud. The real German V orkman maintains that acts of terror, which might have been conceivable ar the time of the reign of the Czar, are unworthy of republic which has urii- versal suffrage parliamentary govern ment and free press. Nor could any such method be effectual Germany can recover only by steadily and quickly increasing production and no economic constitution" not even ono copied from the Russians. will be able to give to the wage worker today or tomorrow more comforts of life than he has achieved in the ordinary consti- tutional way.
 We need not fear bolshevism for tho time being. especially if we adapt to ou own requirements some of rel bitter experiences. Blindlv raging communism lost It's Easter pat tie. Sadly enough. it's only result was to strengthen the hands of the reac- tionaries. to whom hundreds of thou sands filled with alarm are turning as
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