The Washington times., 1922-03-05
Bv DIR. f. j. DILLON---
(The Man Who Dissected the Versailles Treaty.
Europe Is Yielding To BOlsheVs Doctrines Says Veteran War Coe
spondent and FufLmnt Will Spell Ruin To ALI Concerned The
Average German Finds Id Hard To Withstand Temptations

a. formerly. and that dishonesty
threatens to become an achieve
mont which confers . claim to
distinction. And that In what
diaheartens those Germans who
are truly DESTROYS Of setting their
country on its feet again and
saving all the spiritual and In.
tellectual possessions that have
not been lost irreparably. The
Treaty OF Versailles renders this
task q sheer impossibility and
opens the door to Bolshevism.
LENIN'S PREDICTION.
Lenin. who 10 endowed with .
certain degree of political vision
as we'll as indomitable will.
power. once foretoid that Bolshe-
vism would spread over all Eu-
rope In the fullness Of time. but
would be recast In other moulds
adapted to tho Psychology Of each
Of the various peoples. Russians
hold that since then events have
been bearing out his prediction.
And curiously enough-they
say-the West European Gov
ernments are among the first to
exhibit unmistakable symptoms
Of the new pathological condition.
The fragrant contradiction be-
tween their avowed principles
and their deliberate actions II one
OF these. Another, which IL even
more delnoralizing. 10 their con.
slant appeal to a formal right
grounded on force, against the
universal and Unborn sentiment Of
justice and equity. Again. their
conception Of international law Is
evanescent. and plain dealing is
q memory.
: The latest scheme for European
reconstruction has been forged
say Lloyd Georges Russian critics
in accordance with that familiar
maxim. necessity knows no law"
They describe IL az a plan for tho
German exploitation Of PROSTATE
Russia. with the avowed object Of
rendering Germany ripe for exploit
tation by the Entente. And they
contend that the governments
whose moral sensitiveness was
shocked unspeakably two years ago
by the teachings and misdeeds OF
Lenine and his partisans would
not now contribute to perpetuate
them were 1t not for that their I'M
mediate material interests seem
capable Of being furthered by this
change of front.
They conclude that a policy en-
anating from such a motive fails
under the category of Bolshevism.
In the action contemplated, the
problems Of private property, OF
the social and political liberties Of
the individual and Of the rights Of
the majority are all directly in
volved and are all practically
solved in the Bolshevist sense.
EUROPE'S INCONSISTENCIES.
II Lenine's Balshevist state. it
is argued, can fifty be recognized,
admitted to the community of PEG.
pies, and welcomed as a useful col
laborator In the reconstruction OF
Europe, what are we to think Of
the blood and treasuI spent in the
repeated efforts put forth to oveI-
throw his government a couple Of
years ago? And how arc We to
reconcile this sudden change Of at
titude toward the arch.priests Of
Bolshevism with the sentence Of
ostracism which Is still being en-
forced not only against its obscure
adherents but likewise against al.
Russians passing through foreign
countries, on the ground that they
may possibly be tainted with It's
teachings? Lastly. what defence
can be put up for the refusal Of
the Entente to recognize the MeXi-
can government, which has recog-
nized its debts and its discharging
its international duties conscien.
Ciously?
There is perhaps no people in the
world in whose emotional system
nationalism plays such an insig-
nificant part az the Russians. And
yet they have been frequently
painted as pan-Slavist, eager to
dominate Europe, longing for Con-
stantinople, hating the English. the
Japanese, the Germans, and ready
to welcome any declaration Of war
against them.
INCAPABLE OF HATRED.
As a matter Of fact, neither ma
tional nor racial hatred can be en-
grated on the Russians. To poll
tics they are indifferent, and even
professional politicians are provir-
cially, when not parochially. ig.
nored: socially they lack cohesive
ness. and psychologically they are
born mystics and yearn for a wider