Evening star., 1924-02-20

people to fight out within their own
country. The question hinges upon
two main tests: Is the soviet govern
ment q responsible government whose
International Agreements and obliga-
tons VIII be trustworthy? VIII the
Russian reprssentatives-con and
other officials and Red Cross repre-
sentatives-attend only to their Off
ciRl duties, or will they enter our
country under the guise of official
citing revolution against the Amer
ican republic, as they have done
against every other country they
have entered?
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Poland has just issued an official
report OF the Russian treason against
the Polish government. 1t il called
the White Book. 1t Is in French, and
governments of the world rs an ar
raignment Of insidious. revolutionary,
persistent treason. 1t is a type of
the experiences of every other nation
at has admitted the bolsheviks of
tusSlA- Their avowed purpose, as
set forth in their own official litera-
ture. Is to undermine all governments,
dissolve all national ties and fuse the
whole proletariat Of the world into
one unconditional organization against
capitaL->
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According to high government au-
thority, there is no justification for
statement made recently by a
United States senator that commun-
ism was adopted by the soviets merely
as temporary war measure. 1t is
the very foundation Of sovietism, he
says. 1t is not the government of
Russia that counts. 1t is the third
lnternationaie. but the personnel of
the government and Of the interna-
tionale are identical. The third in
ternAtionale is the all-embracing or
ganization, and Russia is only one of
the several units, as the United
States would become IL we permitted
the socialists to gain q foothold.
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The new constitution of that fedora
tion was adopted December 80, 1922,
at Moscow, with a resolution to "en-
ter into the covenant for the for
nation of the union of soviet So
cialistic republics, and to adopt, as
the fundamental law thereof, the
covenant and constitution creating
the union of socialistic republics"
Section ! of the constitution con-
tains this statement:
THE efforts of the capitalist regime,
in the course of the decades, to solve
the question of nationalities by the
joint methods of the free develop
ment Of the peoples and the exploita-
tion Of man by man have proven
vain. On the contrary, the web of
national antagonism is becoming
even more entangled until 1t threat
ems the very existence of capitalism
itself. The bourgeoisie has proven
impotent of bringing about co-opera-
tion among peoples"
:" . Finally, the very structure
of the soviet power. which is interna-
tional in it's class character, calls the
toi1ing masses of the soviet repub-
lies toward a unity of one socialist
family.
"All these circumstances impera-
lively demand the unification of the
soviet republics into one federal
state, powerful enough of warding
off foreign attacks, and the security
of internal economic welfare, as well
as the unhampered existence of the
various nations"
Opponents of the league of nations
claim that it would set up a super
government, though its adherents
deny that charge. The soviets make
no camoufiage of their purpose, which
is openly declared to be to supersede
all present governments Of the peo-
pie, and substitute q government ONLY
of the proletariat. disregarding all
national lines. Its flag is officially
made of red or scarlet cloth'-the
sign of socialism and anarchy.
Copyright. 1874. by Paul " CeIlins)