New-York tribune., 1922-04-15

nus Vie SONeIHlDe nC reads the hand
writing on the college walls.
Elsewhere over the wide domain of
Russia there are disquieting rumors of
change. in the temper of the people.
For five years party government in
Russia has been only fiction. There
are signs Of q growing irritation, re-
crudescence of opinion. against the re-
preston enforced for the last four
/ years.
There are three groups of political
parties in Russia. To the Left belong
| the anarchists, the Bolsheviks and
Mensheviks, the Social Revolutionary
party and the Peoples Socialist:c
party. To the Middle belong the
/ Cadets or Constitutional Democrats
! and the Octobrists, who stand upon
the rights granted by Car Nicholas
in 1905. To the Right are the
Monarchists, the Union of Archangel
Michael and the Black Hundred, all ex-
treme reactionary parties.
Little danger threatens the govern
nent to-day from the parties of the
| Of unity, the lack Of common aim
/ and program among Ae parties of the
Left. AS the Bolshesist party becomes
! more party Of opportunism it is ar
| raging against itself the anarchists,
the Menshevists and the Socialist
groups. To-day scores of Socialists
are in Jail and the government is de-
liberating as to whether it dares to
shoot them.
The government is finding itself
tested in another manner. The Soviet
Federation covers a wide territory
with very loose bonds. Here and
there among the provincial govern
ments separatist tendencies arc mani
Testing themselves. Timid at first, these
tendencies take on strength as each
state is thrown more upon its own
resources and obtains smaller profit
from association with Moscow.
Played upon by dangers at home
and abroad, the government of Russia
has taken It's last stand. 1t is the hour
of decision for Soviet Russia.
Hour of Decision Arrives
For Western Europe and U. S.
But it is not alone the hour Of de-
cision for Soviet Russia. 1t is the hour
of decision for western Europe and for
America as we'll.
Nothing can to-day be accomplished
by continuing to think of Russia in
! terms of the atrocities which have com
posed the main items Of Russian news
/ for the last four years. The govern
ment of Russia has met some serious
failures on the economic front. These
failures have been counterbalanced
| by successes on the political front.
When the reckoning comes TO be made
with Soviet Russia account will have
to be given to the political successes as
| well as to the economic failures.
The Soviet governments successes
| on the political front have sbeen partly
the results Of its own policies, partly
the results Of the lack of a clear and
tions OF the world toward Russia. The
Soviet government has known how to
| play its own unity against the lack Of
unity Of the world. The Soviet gov
crnment has seized for it's own advan-
tage the reactionary elements in the
policies of its adversaries.
The Soviet government has seized
upon the futile and Illustrate military
offensives, timidly put forth and as
timidly withdrawn, to unite as one man
| behind it the national spirit Of proud
and powerful people. Trotzky's sue
| cesses on the field of battle were Rus
sian successes. They were even more
failures of vision and wisdom and
policy on the part Of the leaders of
the chief nations Of the world. Only an
enemy of the human race would to-day
suggest force in any form, economic or
military, against Russia.
The government Of Russia has seized
for it's own advantage and for the
dividing of it's foes the preoccupations
of the governments OF the Western ma
tions in debt and in trade. These pre-
occupations have made it possible for
the government Of Russia to claim be-
fore it's own people and before the
world that the governments of the cap
italistic" nations were blind to the
umanitarian issues of the revolution,
concerned only with money making and
! the pound of flesh.
1t is not alone to Russia that the
| hour Of decision has come. The hour
of decision has come to the govern
ments of the world, to test their poll
cies, to try their professions in the
| light of their acts, to seek wisdom and
candor.
The solution of the Russian problem