The Washington herald., 1921-09-22
Two Names.

II.
and Trotsky, there would still be chance to
save the people OF Russia. This is not merely
demand OF humanity, it is self-interest as we'll
Russia is the worlds greatest single food reservoir
She is also the greatest single market for marufac
turcd goods. If Europe to losS this double bene-
| FIT it will be a serious blow to its economic
recovery and will be it has delivered to itself
through lack of ability to ignore, see beyond
these two names.
| Ienin and Trotsky control the army OF Rus
sis, the only army that country has have.
Ii is not possible to organize another within Rus
sia that would have chance to overthrow them,
even if the allies had the means. An internal
could come only through Poland and Rumania, and
Iwar is the last thing either should undertake.
think OF. Europe has had enough OF war, and the
cost of any war would iced all starving Russians.
No country has any reason to longer fear Rus
sian Communism. 1t is OF the past. Trotsky can
orate; it is his only remaining stock in trade.
His talk is the rearguard action to Lenin's
retreat Soviet does not mean Communism and a
Soviet government is not necessarily Communist
eo,ernment. As a fact, while the Soviet govern
ment OF Russia has been Communist than
Soviet, it is far from being distinctly Com
mHnist 1t is in this retreat back to comparative
normally" Trotsky is covering with his bombast.
But be all this it may too much OF the eco
nomic future of Europe is bound up in the produc-
tive power OF the people in that section Of
Poland and Rumania to make it selhshly safe
tb sacrifice them. Russia produced mainly raw
materials In exchange for these she took goods.
She provided vast and growing market for all
the European nations which industriaIly more
advanced. If they lose these materials and
this market their industrial recovery will be sadly
Hampercd.
Neither are the Russian people responsible for
I,enin and Trotsky. They not capable OF being
responsible for anything blind followers,
trained only to follow, steeped in literacy and
/ superstition. They followed the Gar into the war
allies of the allies because they understood,
but because they were ordered. They followed Ker-
~cnsky until he showed weakness and failed to lead.
They followed Leuin because he appealed to their
cupidity He holds them by his army while
they sit helpless, incapable sPritless, with no
OF resistance, without other leaders and no
possible relief from OF sodden submission to
fate
But saved from death they have the power OF
pro ction and the will to produce. Their economic
value would survive with them and purely sel6shly
Europe must have this economic value. What re-
mains OF Communism we'll be left future
problem. The immediate job is to save producing
Russia and If it is to be saved this only be as
country whose government is completely controlled
by these two men, whose such stencil
~that prejudice would sacrifice the noses which
smell them.
American relief alone has been able TO forget
them. 1t is in Russia feeding children and caring
flor the sick. 1t gives nothing the Lenn Trotsky
government, its army OF political following but
without the help OF that government and its agree
menr, it could not have entered Russia and could
not have OF distribution. The allies can go
in the same basis, in the way. This way
is now open The preliminary work has been done.
The "how" Is settled and the organization system
is demonstrated
If Europe is to Russia for Europe, it must
act and that soon. 1t does not profit man to gain
the whole world while losing his own SOUL and
surely it cannot profit a to lose the whole
world while saving his prcjudices 1t was Lord
Bryce who said: The benefit of mankind as a
whole. is not recognized as a paramount am"
Even so, Europe should recognize as a paramount
aim the benefit Of its people as a whole and
10 what extent this is wrapped up in saving the
productive power OF the Russian people
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