The Washington times., 1921-03-09

can be believed, just fix your mind
on this: A while ago a great deal OF
noise was made about certain reports
because they came from the official
Bolshevik organ, Pravda. The Boil
sheviks stated that the copies from
which the reports were taken were
forgeries.
or course. nobody believed 1t. 1t
was looked upon as Bolshevik lies and
propaganda. Who could believe that
the governinen which represent
honor, civilization. democracy and all
the other fne words would carry
propaganda to the point of absolute
forgery?
BRITISH FORGERY ADMITTED.
We had long ago forgotten the
Sisson documents. and besides there
was a lot of ,reulity mixed up with
that affair. Now comes an official
admission In the House Of Commons
Of q British forgery concerning RUS
STA that would almost bring . blush
to the cheek of a trained diplomat.
The present House is subservient
compared with the average House OF
Commons. bus 1t will not lie down
altogether and go to sleep while the
Executive commits any crime II
chooses
Here (is the confession wrung from
Edward Short, the Home Secretary:
Emigre Russians living In England
asked that the Director OF INTEL
lixence for the British government
cola borate with them in their enter
prise of forging and circulating pre-
tended Bolsnevik paper. to the ex-
tent of having the British printers
name removed, for otherwise the
forgery would be easily discovered.
The British Intelligence Service
thereupon in the refined English OF
the Home Secretary arranged for the
removal"
The forged copies were sent on to
the border States for circulation.
: Such friends, is the solid basis Of
our information about Russia And
this exposure In the House of Com
mons was made only last week. What
difference does II make? We shall be-
lieve, just the same. all we read from
Helsingfors, Paris, London, and WASH
ington. -..---.--
And SO on this propaganda drive we
shall probably found policies as disas-
trous as all the other Russian policies
of the last your years.
The results OF the present excite
ment, emanating from Paris as CEN
ter, will probably be as dramatically
as any OF the earlier ones.
The infuriated Dolsheviks have a
of cards that they can play.
IL driven to II, and the present policy
will drive them to It.
Bessarabia will serve as an exam
pie. 1t Is piled up with food. while in
Russia the last crop was largely a
failure. Bessarabia belongs to Rus
sia, anyway, although the allies gave
II to Rumania.
The railroad communications are
such that Russia could throw an army
into Bessarabia with the greatest
ease. She will now probably be led
to make that step, and the world will
be off on another sweet adventure.
KRAssIN IN LONDON.
Krassin has left Germany, where he
expressed himself gloomily about. the
possibility OF any other solution than
war. He said he believed that both
the British and the American Govern
ments were determined to force the
into q desperate course
and that the trade negotiations were
mere pretense.
He has reached London now and he
may. in his mild way. ask how the
recent forgeries bear on the act of
the British in breaking on trade nego-
tiations in order to change the agree
ment perfected last summer by insert
ing new guarantees against bolshevtk
propaganda
The sist of that break in negotia-
tions Is that the bolsheviks did not
wish to count Persia and Asia Minor
parts of the British empire.
KYaaain NAV alan want 70 knnw
what assistance Is being given to
Wrangel in his visit to Budapest for
the purpose OF stirring Hungary into
4 night with Russia
FACTS SHOULD HELP.
In my opinion. the present Adminis-
tration would think straight on Rus
sia II 1t had the facts. / suspect,
however, it will go on getting its
facts from Mr.. Bakhmeteff and from
the reports sent in by diplomatic
of what color Of informa-
ton 10 desired by governments and
the dresSsuit classes The years in
which all their information has been
has not in the least dis.
them.
President Harding does not at pres
ent claim any knowledge Of Russia, or
OF our experiments there. He starts
with two wholesome beliefs, how
ever.
One is that what happens politi-
cally in Russia is none Of our busi-
ness. The other Is that its would
help the business situation In the
United states to lay = foundation for
future trade with Russia
1t is said that money talks. Some
times 1t talks pretty good sense.
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