Evening star., 1924-08-05
ARTICLE III.

In previous dispatch I reported
on efforts of the Russian goyernmen
10 flood outside countries with train
ed military specialists to pave the
way for armed uprisings against ex-
isting governments.
AS some advocates of the recogni-
tion of the Union of Socialized
Soviet Republics" (broad enough
designation for Bolshevia to take in
the United States whenever the red
flag is hoisted on the White House)
still profess to accept the distinction
between the internationally correct
Soviet government and the naughtily
irresponsible Communist Interna-
tionale, let me say that nobody in
russia during my three month sta y
mas attempted To disclaim the re-
Sponsibility of the Soviet government
and the Russian Communists party
executive, which is indivisible, for
the policy of the executive COM
mittee of the Communist Interna-
tlonale and for militant Communist
activities abroad
This policy, adopted by the political
bureau or the Russian Communist
party, which runs both the Russian
government and the Communist In
ternationale and indorsed by the
Russian Communist and Third In
ternationale congresses, is one of
maximum militant activism" in all
outside countries. This means, trans
lated from the bolshevist jargon,
that Communist organizations outside
Russia are ordered not to content
themselves with political activity
but to precipitate fighting and blood
shed IN connection with every strike
to stage food riots" with mobs OF
the proletariat plundering the mar
kets and stores as protest against
the high cost of living, and to pro-
woke collisions with the police ON the
be worked up to the necessary state
of fury by judicious blood-letting.
German Reds Sent Orders.
That is the first stage" of the
manual of civil war, accord
ing-to Trotsky. that of the "organic
technical preparation for civil war
The second stage is open war for
power" followed by the third stage,
consolidation of power after vic
tory"
Orders to undertake operations un-
been received by the German Com
munists before | came here and oc-
casioned the liveIiest controversy
between German Communist leaders,
who objected to riSking their own
skins and those of their followers to
provide the desired martyrs for boil
shevism, and the dutiful servants of
Moscow. When | arrived in Moscow
l found every one talking about the
new policy and mincing no words
about the proposed methods since the
controversy had been brought into
the open through the appeal of Karl
Radek, the "quenched firebrand" of
international communism, and OF the
old executive committee of the Ger
man Communist party against the
orders of the Russian political bu-
reau.
Radek, generalissimo of the Euro
pean Communist movements outside
Russia since 1917 and originally fire.
brand enough to satisfy the most
extreme Muscovites, is thousand
times more familiar with foreign
conditions than the Russian political
hureau, only one member OF which
Zinoviev. had been outside Russia
since 1917 and he only for two
week trip to Germany in 1921.
Radek became convinced that the
policy of violence would only lead tc
q tremendous defeat and bath of blood
for German Communism and refused
to carry out the policy of the 'politi-
cal bureau" or to order the German
Communists, by virtue of his dicta
torial powers as representative OF
Moscow, to court a war with the Ger
man federal troops in Saxony and