Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-06-03
SCHEME
.TOF0STER WAR
IS REVEALED
Secret Document Con-
tains Proposal for En-
broiling Other Nations.
Russia Hopes to Profit
Through Probable Mis-
takes of Others.

New York. June Professor Pau
y. Milukoff. former minister of forelg1
affairs in the Russian provisional gov
ernment. Thursday cabled to the Rus
sian information bureau here the tex
OF very confidential" document de.
clared to have been issued by the boil
shevIst commissary of foreign affairs
n. Chitcherin, and which is claimed tc
snow the secret aims behind the lates,
foreign policy of the Lenine govern
ment.
Proposes Foreign Alliances.
This document, dated February 6.
1921, and which was addressed tn the
representatives of the bolshevist gov
ernment abroad and came into posses
sion of Professor Milukoff in Paris.
calls attention to alliances of the vari
Gus world powers which would be re-
garded as most beneficial to soviet
RUSSIAN ambitions. OF this the docu-
ment says:
Inc interests of the western powers
are SO interviewer that it is impossi-
Ole under present conditions to fore
cast the political combinations into
WMch the alliances of the powers will
1lnaiiy resolve themselves However.
reahzlEg the advantage which the Gre
alton OF such alliances undoubtedly
holds out to us. we suggest to our
missions as worthy of consideration the
following combinations:
Breeders of Trouble.
"British-Japanese, as a threat to
america; british sh-German, as a threat
20 France; ltalian-Greek, as a coun-
terbaIance to the policies of England
and France IN the near east; Polish
rrench, as direct threat to Germany:
Czecho- -humanlan, as threat to Hun
gary, etc.
Observing that through defeating
nAolchak, Denikine and Wrangel, soviet
Russia came face to face, with forces
If imperialistic capitalism, the ipstruc- |
ions declare that the whole future |
IT soviet Russia depends upon a skill !
ul utilization of the present political
situation in Europe.
Peaceful Means Impotent,
Economic conditions in Europe have
ecome so helplessly bad, Chitcher;n
sserts, that neither individual count
les nor the whole Of Europe will be
BILE to emerge through peaceful means.
lis instructions refer to the idea of
eague of nations. ds having suffered
tier defeat.
The bolshevik foreign minister's
ocument abandons all hope of bring
lg about class revolution in the west
Y active propaganda. but he sees in
resent chaotic conditions broad and
olden opportunity to realize this am
ition by minimizing the real strength d,
the soviet government until the
sociological moment arrives.
To Profit by Others Folly. f.
I'VE are approaching moment"
is instructions read, when by the
,rce Of historical logic the capitalistic .
| to commit folly. and it is our task :
ot to interfere with the commission .
that folly. Germany is in need of
oral support. We shall furnish that. :
ermany needs security for her east
n border. That shall be promised
,r. France wants to see us helpless.
ct us show her our helpessness.
ngland wants to exploit us. We shall
ant her every opportunity to do SO.
"We must see to it that the center
gravity is transferred from us to
.e west. Let European diplomats
eak their heads over the solution of
oblems that cannot be solved. We
all always manage to remain the de-
sive factor It is not to our benefit
at we should be feared and our pow
exaggerated. =
"Official recognition of our repre- I
natives. development of trade re-
ions. gradual dissemination of our
and the strengthening of
r authority among the proletariat
are the aims of our
,rk
SHOULD circumstances interfere with Il
r activity in the west 1t will then y
necessary to transfer the center j.
our diplomatic work to the Balkan =.
ninsula and to capture the sphere II
influence in the near east. II
NO matter how much the French 81
German statesmen may wlggle, u
tling their swords and yielding Mt III
!. last moment" he concluded. "soon- -
or later conditions will bring them S
a clash, and at that moment we
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