The Washington herald., 1922-02-12
Suggests Force to Aid Russia

Cheever Goodwin. the satirical
poet, in one of his lyrics paraphras-
ing Tennyson's line: "A fierce light
that beats upon a throne" described
Napoleon III as "a fierce beat that
lights upon. a throne" Substitute
Lenine for lie petit Napoleon. as
Victor Hugo called him. and the
parallel is fairly good, though
greatly in favor Of the French die
tator.
1t was the plain duty OF the SUI
preme council at Paris d the time
of the armistice or the virtual end
Of the world war, TO restore Russia
to its status as one of the most i'm
portant Of the allies-the originator.
in fact. with Edward VII of Eng
land. OF the Entente Alliance
against Prussian intrigue. Through
the cowsrdly imbecile Kerensky,
Russia had been seized and de-
bauched by Lenine and his fellow
bandits, financed and otherwise
supported by Germany.
In accord with the judgment of
many of the ablest statesmen of
Europe and America. expressed at
the time in the press and else
where, no duty was more plain for
, the Supreme Council to perform
than to restore Russia to the allies
by force of arms. Instead il yield
ed to the league of nations and the
Versailles pact OF alleged peace.
Gen. Foch was prevented from
| establishing a competent provision
al government IN Russia as well as
| in Germany.
With millions of soldiers flushed
with victory. a plethora of money
and an armada of ships and sailors.
the result would have been easy
enough mere side issue of the
| war. Powerful fleets sent into the
Baltic and Black seas with an army
corps from each of her allies
Britain, France and the United
States-and Russia would have
been regained. Sixty days would
have been sufficient. according to
competent military authority, for
the trained and victorious troops
of the allies in their march on Pet
rograd and Moscow to make short
work of the red mob OF the So
called army of Lenine and Trotsky.
Russia had then. as she has to-
day. able men who could have been
placed in charge of affairs pending
the establishment Of the Duma
and who, after the bandit murder
ers and robbers had been shot.
would have restored production and
prevented further war and famine.
With proper support from the allies
for short time. almost any one
| of the members of the former gov
| ernment-except the jelly-fish Ker-
ensky-at its head. would have
/ brought peace and prosperity to
the sorely tried Russia of today.
And now at Geneva there Is
| about to assemble a body that
! smacks of the Versailles treaty
conclave-save the mark. That
body proposes to confer with the
commune outfit afflicting Russia
| like a stalking pestilence and rep
! resented by Lenine. himself. with
his fellow Bolshevik criminals
! From all accounts thus far given
! out the same sort of statemenship
; may be expected at Geneva that
obtained at Versailles three years
ago.
! AS the commune, in all history,
has never yet been able to succeed
| permanently in it's system of al
legged government, there is no rea-
son to believe that 1t can succeed
now; but IL il shall receive coun-
tenance at Geneva and he allowed
to get Roadway among the nations
as in Russia. with its feuds be-
tween proletariat and bourgeoisie,
Europe would be in danger of be-
coming a charnel house with the
bloodiest of 'shambles, until the
/ Man, on Horseback"-some Crom-
| wen or First Consul-should arise
to give the weary world a respite
from the dissonant din of battle
field and despair.
There are many men of good
| judgment-not in political circles
who believe that 1t is not too late
even now to find a remedy for the
evil case in which the world is
placed. They believe 1t would be
money in the packets of the greater
nations to combine in an expedi-
| tionary force for the establishment
Of a government in Russia that by
proper action would restore that
country to its one-time condition
of production and prosperity. But
IL is perhaps too much to expect
that the Geneva conference will
view 1t in such light. In Schiller's
words: Against stupidity the very
gods. themselves, contend in vain"