The Cordova daily times., 1921-03-02
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1921
SOVIET DOWNFALL

What is the true situation regard ing the Bolsheviki ill Russia? Is the Lenine-Trotzky government tottering to It's fall, or is it preparing a gi- 1iVered early next spring against Po- land and in British Asia?
 This question is causing the brows of the state department experts to furrow with care, and members of the senate foreign relations commit tee are giving much thought to the situation.
 Reports from Paris, London, Der lin, and Copenhagen regarding the Russian situation could not possibly be more contradictory On January 13 cable services published widely a scare head" statement that the Rus sian Soviet government will throw more than 2000,00O Bolshevik sol diers on the Russian boundaries in the early spring. This statement was founded on alleged reports of French military experts, presumably in Po- land, but more likely in some Paris cafe, if the report was not a down. right fake" Such a gigantic drive necessarily, if directed principally at Poland, would be almost certain to overwhelm that country in short campaign, unless the Poles received active French and British support, or even German support. Gen. Luden- dOrf has anticipated the alleged com ing campaign by offering to raise German army to fight with the Poles against the Bolsheviki, and it is said he has actually made the tender to the Allies. Along with the attack on Poland Soviet armies would be launched against the British in Ar menia, and in this campaign it is probable the Bolsheviki would receive active assistance of the Turkish na. tionalists armies, now operating against the Greeks.
 . If the Soviet armies should overrun Ppiand the only barrier between them and France would then be Germany, helpless Germany disarmed by the aIlins, and a country which would have to either embrace Sovietism or be swallowed up by the Bolsheviki as Poland would be engulfed. No one sees the possibilities better than Lu- dendorf, and 1t must be indeed blind Preach or British statesman who cannot vision the outcome of the disappearance of the Polish barrier. With this thrown down the Bolshe- wiki flood would sweep over the re- 1naiuder of Europe, and the French and British would again have their backs to the wall"
 This is one side of the picture It may and may not be the true situa- tidn as mirrored by the startling dis patches described.
 The other side of the shield seems quite different. Some observers of European events here, men who are particularly well informed on old world conditions, believe that the projected offensive against Poland will never materialize, and that the conditions and preparations of the Soyiets are grossly exaggerated. Men like John Hays Hammond, the fam ous mining experts, than whom there is. no person in the United States better informed on international af- fairs, believes that the Lenine-Trotz- ky government is slowly but surely disintegrating and will soon fall with a great crash to be succeeded by a real republican government. Oscar T. Crosby, former assistant secre- tary of the treasury, agrees with Hammond concerning the downfall of the Bolsheviki government at Mos COW, but thinks that the end will not come within two years.
 Crosby holds that Russia can only gain her old position in the world by overthrowing the Soviet government and increasing her foreign trade particularly her exports. Crosby says that only a small percentage of the Russian people are now in sympathy