The New York herald., 1921-07-10
FAR APART IN THEORY
Chief Interested in Eco
nomic Dependence Of Ire
land Upon Britain.
HOPES IN ULSTER REVOLT
Ease With Which Mission Got
to Moscow Shows Britain
Is Not Opposed.
By CAPT. FRANCIS M.cuLLAeH.

By CAPT. FRANCIS M'CULLAGH.
Special Correspondence to THE NEW YORK
HERALD.
REvAL. June 10.-The opening Of the
sinn Fein Embassy in Moscow was
attended by Lenine, who stood bare
headed while the military band lent
by Trotzky for the occasion played a
number of Irish rebel tunes. The Boil
shevist leader closed the proceedings
with few appropriate words in Eng
hsh. Previous to this Mr.. Conoly or
Conody, the Irish ambassador, made
short speech in Gaelic. which was
translated first into English and then
into Russian for the benerit of Lenine
and his friends, among whom was
Tchitcherin. the Bolshevist Commits
sary of Foreign Affairs. and Zinov1ff,
President of the Third Internationale.
Trotzky was not present.
The young Irish actress who IS a
member of the Irish ambassadorial
stan takes a great deal of interest in
the famous Artistic Theatre. still per-
AoPS tac DSSI tuSdlIS III I1o WOTlQ
The others have little to do save to
learn Russian. of which, however, none
Of them can speak more than a few
words. They deal mostly with the Of
ficials of the Third Internationale and
with the Indian, Persian and Afghan
emissaries, whose language about Eng
land leaves them nothing to add.
Lenine's Hopes for Ireland.
They are mistaken. however, If they
think that Lenine takes them seriously.
though he always receives them with
courtesy and listens attentively to their
explanation of the Irish question. He
never seems to be very much shocked.
however. by their lurid description Of Sir
Hamar Greenwood's regime. for his own
regime was exactly the same regime of
terror, and he is a Arm believer In terror
az means Of government. On two points
he and they are as far apart as they
can possibly be. These points are pa
triotism and economics. The former he
cannot understand at all he regards 1t
only as an out Of date sentimentality
like religion. Economics he does under
stand, but he takes a diametrically op-
posite view of it to his Irish visitors.
The only part Of the Irish question to
which Lenine pays any intelligent atten-
tion Is the economic dependence of Ire
land on Great Britain and of northeast
Ulster on the rest of Ireland. The for
nler circumstance will, he hopes. lead to
the Bolshevization Of English labor
through Irish chaos, and the latter will
ultimately, he thinks lead to the Boil
shevization of Ireland through hard
bitten Belfast mechanics. abandoned by
England and driven desperate by the
present wave Of industrial depression.
His sympathy is always with the factory
hand. never with the peasant and he
looks forward to the time when Irish
labor will rule Ireland through Soviets.
AS he dislikes Catholicism more than he
dislikes Presbyterianism, he Is rather at
tracted to northern ireland and rather
repelled by the south.
Faith in workmen.
He thinks 1t rather clever Of Lloyd
George to back up the Belfast shipyard
men. for 1t is just what he would have
done under the circumstances himself.
believing firmly, as he does in the su-
periority of workmen over peasants as
revolutionary and fighting material. To
that belief. in fact. he owes his whole
success. He pinned his faith to the
Russian workmen. who hate priests. are
more concentrated, and can therefore be
more easily propagandized and welded
together into an irresistible phalanx for
the overthrow of any government. The
social revolutionaries pinned their faith
to the priest ridden peasant, isolated.
scattered over vast areas. ignorant.
avaricious. the very stuff OF which
slaves are made; and Kerensky's over
throw was the result.
Lenine laughs loudly at the idea of
religious intolerance having anything to
do with listers opposition to home
rule. "Tt 10 only" he says to his friends
the natural antipathy of trained and
educated workmen to a government of
superstitious peasants. The English
aristocrats and capitalists have made
use OF that antlpathy for their own
ends, but the day will come when they
will regret having taught the Ulster
workmen their strength, for that
strength inevitably will be used against
them In the long run"
He holds that, at bottom, Ulsterism is
Bolshevism; that Is, the domination of
peasant majority by well disciplined
minority Of skilled workmen. Political
changes are very rapid nowadays" he
remarked, "and In a year or two these
workmen will measure their strength
with their own employers. The latter
taught them to defy acts OF Parliament.
to arm against the Crown and to snap
their fingers at Prime Ministers. II Is
an exceedingly useful lesson"
ireland ms n sfdeshow.
But Lenine always regards ireland as
a sideshow. economically bound to Eng
land and incapable OF independent ex-
istence. though useful for the revolu-
tionizing Of the English workmen. At
present. however. he Is seeking TO at
tract English capital and English trade,
and would promptly expel the Sim
Feiners from Moscow IL the British Coy
eminent asked him to do so. TMt
Lloyd George has not asked him to do so
sSovr that the British Premier is rather
s;asasd taas the Sim Feiners are In
Moscow, where they will furnish excel |
lent material for propaganda against
Sim Fein in Great Britain, France.
America and at the Vatican. II is
quite possible that De Valera will finally
get shipwrecked against the rock Of
Roman Catholicism. and Lloyd George is |
probably awaiting this event to happen. |
And the more he allows DE Valera TO
get entangled with Lenine the more
likely II is TO happen.
There can be no other explana ton for |
Lloyd Georges silence with regard TO
this Sim Fein embassy at Moscow. Mr. |
Peters, the head OF Russian bureau In |
the British Foreign Office. was in Mos
COW last week making arrangements for |
the reception OF Mr.. Hodgson. who was |