The New York herald., 1921-06-18
Big RED CONGRESS
OPENS in MOSCOW
Delegates Delighted at the
Prospect. of Ruin in Rest
OF World.
PEACE IDEAS SECUTED
Americans See War With
Japan, French and English
Report Armies Mutinous.
PEACE IDEAS SECUTED
BRITAIN'S FALL AT HAND
Basil COlhoun Of U. S. Predicts
Great Anglo-American Clash,
Begun by japanese.

Special Cable to THE New YORK HERALD.
Copyright, 1891, 6y THE New YORK HEaALp.
MOSCOW (via RevaD, June 1.-THE
Congress of the Third Intcrnationale
opened here to-day with a bright and
happy ceremony and with everybody
on holiday. Moscow is a vast ex-
panse Of red. like a poppy covered
Flanders field. and flags are flying
from almost every building. There
was a gala parade, in which the Mos
COW garrison took part and which
ended in the Red Square at the Krem-
lin. Nikolai Lenine, Leon Trotzky and
all the Bolshevist lesser lights, includ-
ing hundreds of foreign delegates, were
present.
In the laughing. cheering crowds in
this general headquarters for the
Third Internationale' programme for
a world revolution, Lenine's peace
talks recently were decidedly at dis
count. Indeed, delegates from nearly
all lands are arriving here with the
impression that old Europe is going to
pieces. The American Communist
delegates are quite CHEEKY over pros
poets Of war with Japan, while the
French declare. there were many in
stances of lnsubordination among the
troops mobilized for the march into
the Ruhr" during the reparations
crisis. and the English say that the
rehabilitation of the reserves called
to the colors during the coal strike
crisis last April was due to the fact
that the troops were on the verge Of a
mutiny,
1t is agreed among the Internationale
delegates that England has definitely
lost her place in Europe and from now
on she will steadily slide down hill. since
the coal miners strike has cost her the
Italian market and the French and Poles
are planning to divide Germanys coal
fields among themselves, so that they
will be able to snap their fingers at
English coal, with the result that Great
mark and Holland.
Basil Colhoun. American Communist
delegate. insists that war between Eng
land and America is certain. although
nominally it may only be between the
United States and Japan, with England
looking on. benignantly watching both
rivals smashing each other up and leav-
ing England in full naval and CONNER
cial control of all the seas of the world
In addressing the congress Paul Ra-
w hat l,a ca11 "a
great clash" agreeing with Colhoun that
an Anglo-American war is inevitable be-
cause Of the economic conditions over
which neither President Harding nor
Premier Lloyd George can keep control.
He said that the increase In American
export trade had convinced England
that. from an economic point Of view.
she had lost the war.
"Radek thinks that Ambassador Har-
vey's London speech before the Pilgrims
and Mr. Lloyd Georges reply indicate
that the ''imperialistic pirates hope to
come TO some kind of an agreement
about a division of the spoils," but he
believes that neither President Harding
nor Mr.. Lloyd George can escape the
chaos into which they are drifting.
Much work is going on among women
COMMUNISTS throughout the world, and
the second international conference of
women is DelnS held IN connection with
the Third Internationale meeting. An
international secretariat has been
formed, with Clara Zetkin, we'll known
Gerwan Communist leader and member
OF the Reichstag. as general secretary
and "Comrade" Kolontai as secretary.
All others connected with the secretariat
are Russians except Roland French and
Rosa Bloch. who come from America.
Evelyn Roy. an American Communist.
is handling the Mexican women workers
movement from Moscow, while Ella
Reeve Bloor is the authority here on
women In American trade unions" She
IL stout and elderly, with tumbled gray
hair.
Tom Bell. an Englishman. Is very
strong regarding what he calls "the ven-
delta started by Great Britain against
militant labor organizations lie says
reactionary leaders are holding the
workers back, or otherwise Great Britain
would be celebrating this day with
civil war. He denounces as traitors
James Henry Thomas. secretary of the
National Union of Railwaymen Robert
Williams. secretary of the National
Transport Federation. and Edward Be-
win, secretary OF the Dockworkers Union,
three of Great Britain's prominent labor
leaders.