New-York tribune., 1921-06-19
Dictatorship of Moscow
Causes Severest Crisis the
Third 1nternationale Has
Thus Far Experienced
Capitalistic Plans Scored
Compromises With Ot.-.er
Governments and General
Foreign Policy Opposed
BIZ Wireless to The Tribune

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verbosity anent the impending triumph
of worldwide revolution and the grow
ing power of the Third Internationale,
in session now at Moscow, The Tribune
! correspondent is able to quote from
documents showing that the Third In
ternationale has entered the severest
crisis of its career. The Western Eu-
ropean Communists are in open revolt
against the Moscow dictatorship of the
lnternationale's affairs.
Points raised in these documents
will constitute the principal conten-
tons to be fought out in the present
congress. One of the documents en-
bodies report which was drawn up
by the Western European secretariat
Of the Central Bureau of the Third In
ternationale.
Moscow Domination Attacked
Declaring that the first five months
of the present year indicated unceas-
ing fidelity to the secret aims outlined
by the International Congress in
Bremen, the report of the Western
secretariat carries the significant
statement that now the whole struc-
ture of Communist propaganda is
threatened with destruction" Blame
for the situation is laid upon the Mos
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affairs and more directly upon the
Lenine-Trotzky regime for it's compro-
misses with the so-called capitalist gov
ernments.
The report makes the striking decla-
ration that the fortunes of the Inter
rationale are redeemable only through
complete reorganization of our propa-
ganda apparatus"
This statement is interpretable as a
direct attack on Lenine and other Off
clals of the Soviet government because
of their compromise of the Bolshevik
program both in and out of Russia,
Failure of our activities" continues
the report, "is explainable by the
chronic complications between func-
tlons of the Soviet governments diplo-
matte organs and those Of the Interna-
tionale.
previously, when the Soviet govern
ment's diplomatic organs had purely
diplomatic character, and when the
governments foreign problems did not
present so many contradictions, mutual
cooperation between the government
and the Third Internatonale was still
possible. Then there were only isolat
ed instances of disagreement, and
chiefly because of the lack of necessary
workers.
Soviet's Aims Opposed
"Now, however, when the Soviet gov
ernment is aiming with ali the powers
at its command to arrive at compro-
mise agreement with Western capital-
ISM, our problems-namely, the prob
lens of the Third Internationale, which
under no circumstances can accent a
compromise with capitalism-are dia-
metrlcally opposed to the problems Of
the Soviet government.
The Soviet governments official rep
resentatives cannot escape the influence
of its foreign policy. it is Impossible
for them to conduct negotiations with
the capitalists and at the same time
carry out the tasks placed before them
by the central committee of the Third
1nternationale.
The moment has now come when
the Western European secretariat
must completely sever all relations
with the official representatives of the
Soviet government in order to free It,
self"
The document further cites the fail
ure of the last communist drive in
Germany as evidence of the common
direction which the revolutionary up
rlslngs fostered by Soviet Russia in
western Europe are taking and de-
clares that representatives of the In
ternatlonale are no longer desirable
since the German Russian trade agree
ment compels the Soviet government
to protect its own interests as against
those of the lnternationale.
Would Avert Catastrophe
The report concludes:
"The Central Bureau emphasizes
that 1t will adhere to its original no
sltlon in the affairs Of the Third In
ternationale in western Europe, es-
pecially in Germany, and EXPRESSES
the hope that the present mistakes
will be eliminated in order to prevent
an otherwise impending catastrophe"
The document is signed by Chair
man Goterman of the executive COM
m1ttee Of the western European Sec
retariat and others of the bureau.
Particularly is the document regard
ed as important by both German Ma
Jorlty and Independent Socialists. To
these the document emphasizes clear1v
the degeneration which has set in to
destroy the influence formerly main
telned by the western secretariat and
to reduce it to a state of helplessness
The loss of influence has been accom-
panied by corresponding decline in
prestige among the workers of western
Europe
To what extent the Lenine faction
will yield to the suggestions offered by
N--S w ScSSlu SOIHtlGIllotS, 10 J1o de-
mand for an abandonment of the Mos
cow dictatorship and to the reques st
for autonomy for the Western mem
bership, only the congress now in ses-
sion at Moscow is in position to say.
1t is known that Lenine controls the
purse strings for all propaganda. He
IS In position, therefore, to deprive
all recalcitrants of their "feed." On
the other hand, the extremists Of the
Russian Bolshevik party who are on
posed to Lenines domestic and foreign
compromises will undoubtedly support
the demands of the Western commu.
hlsts, thus aggravating the dissensions
within the Soviet government itself.
Kari Kautsky, leading German So
clalist and Lenine's chief opponent in
western Europe. commenting on the
Third Internationale Congress 70 the
Tribune correspondent, said:
The workers of western r5urone are
fully awakened to the Ssandiose bluff
embodied in the Thi1d Internationale
The time is not far distant when the
whole Bolshevik and so-called Inter
rationale structures will enter their
common and well-deserved grave"
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