The New York herald., 1921-05-23

already have pointed out, he has been
swindled so much by bogus revolution
aries intent only on getting money and
Jewelry out of him ostensibly to cause
revolution abroad but really to feather
their own nests that he has washed his
hands OF the whole thing.
That does not mean to say, however,
that the leaders Of the Third Interna-
tionalc have done likewise. AS a mat
ter OF fact they are even now trying to
organize Bolshevist revolution in all
the Baltic States. But this discordancy
OF governmental policy always has been
characteristic OF Russia. When I was
In Port Arthur for THE NEW YORK
HERALD In 1903 there was party there
working for war under secret instruc-
tions from the Car. although Alexeiev,
the Viceroy, was trying to keep the
peace, and. after the conclusion OF the
Angio-Russfan agreement regarding Per-
sia the Russian Consul was working
against England by direction of the
court of Czarskoe Selo, while M. Pol1lev-
sky. the Russian Minister at Teheran.
was pursuing an Anglophilc policy un-
der the direction Of the Russian Foreign
Office.
The duality of policy ruined the Gear
in the end, and 1t may ruin Lenine. But
this dual policy Is observable in the
mass OF White Russian political litera-
ture which is produced in Europe. for
while 1t attempts to prove (for the bene-
fit OF Western Europe and America)
that Lenine has not abandoned Com
munism 1t also attempts at the same
time to prove (for the benefit OF the
Russian emigres) that Lenine is selling
the country to American capitalists, that
he has thrown overheard all his princi-
pies and is making an alliance with
English bankers who will help him to
subsidize a Red army to keep the Rus
sian workers down, that the Russian
workmen will be reduced to scrvitudc un-
der American factory managers work.
ing for great American trusts
Cannot Play Two Sides.
The whites cannot have it both ways,
however. They cannot tell us that Lc-
nine has not abandoned Communism,
but Is, on the contrary. working for the
universal proletarian revolution. ana
at the same time tell their anti-Bol-
shevist Russian leaders that Lepine has
formed an alliance with English and
American capitalists for the exploitation
Of Russia. l have not read White
Russian paper for the last month in
which l did not find paragraphs headed
containing news OF some further shred
of his Communist clothing that Lenine
has dropped.
or course the Communists still keep
control of the Government and of the
newspapers, owing to their conviction
that once they give that up they are
lost. And they are right in this belief,
for they would be instantly overwhelmed /
and destroyed. But their policy has
otherwise undergone a profound change
which will lead TO still more remarkable
changes in the near future.
Lenine may pull through the storm
with a very much altered ship steering
on a new course, or he may go to the
bottom. But a news gatherer has only
got to note the extremely important fact
that he has altered his course and to
signal that information to his paper.
For 1t Is. in Michael Farbman's words.
'the most momentous move since the
Russian revolution" and In Lloyd
Georges words. '..an abandonment by the
Bolsheviki OF all their principles"