Evening star., 1924-08-04
ARTICLE III.

DoItCi WouLo lOI IHcll III the HlOulD
Of bolshevist officialdon. when it
comes to pious assurances to foreign
governments that 1t refrains and will
refrain from hostile propaganda and
activities. Tchitcherin exudes panied
and shocked surprise at the unjusti-
fed distrust of Soviet Russia when
ever it is called to account for or
ganizing and subsidizing sedition and
rebellion in countries from which it
seeks recognition or loans.
All the time, however, the Russian
government maintains an official gov
ernment institution whose functions
include training bolshevist agitators
to foment armed revolt and civil
war in foreign countries, working
out the best methods of using torch.
bomb and rifle, and conducting guer-
rilla warfare and, in countries acces-
sible to the Russian armies. of CO.
ordinating the activities of insurgent
communist forces and invading Rus
sian regulars.
This institution is the war acade-
my of the Russian army. Ostensibly
this is a staff college for the train
ing of higher officers, like our Leav-
enworth and Fort Sill schools or the
War College at Washington. 1nfor-
nation obtained during my stay in
Russia brought to light the other
side of its activities. 1t turns out
its regular officer graduates to wear
the uniform and occupy the staff and
commanding posts in the regular Rus
sian army, but side by side with these
it is training expert military agita-
tors to work surreptitiouSly in the
countries for which they have spe-
cialiZed. These are to study the spe-
cial characteristics and conditions of
the respective populations as affect
ing the desired proletarian uprising,
to advise and direct the local com
munist leaders in organizing the pro-
letarian movement, later to swing
it into military channels and. when
this is accomplished, to assume the
military leadership If necessary.
MAntnry Duties First.
Though the training and functions
of these agents are to a certain ex-
tent political, they are first and fore
most military. Their mission is to
prepare, organize and direct the arm
ed movements, by which alone, ac-
cording to accepted bolshevist dog
ma, the goal of proletarian dictator
ship in the various countries and
their incorporation in the Union OF
Socialized Soviet Republics" can be
attained
The adoption Of this name for Sow
let Russia and the elimination OF
Russia" or Russian" from the Of
fetal designation of Bolshevia, OF
which the international postal au-
thorities were recently notihed. is
IN y
measure to open the doors of the in
ternational bolshevist commonwealth
to the outside nations as fast as they
bolshevize themselves.
The war academy is also working
out the strategic and tactical plans
for proletarian risingS in the various
countries. Experience in Russia, the
sole country which has yet staged a
successful bolsheviSt revolution and
conquered the bourgeois and opposl-
ton proletarian elements, is taken as
a basis-to be modified in the light
of special conditions in each country
The moment, IL was admitted at TINS
years Communist conferences, is not
ripe for an out-and-out attempt TO
seize the reins of power in any OF
the western states-the failure &c
strike in Germany and Bulgaria last
wear having wasted the most pro-
pitious opportunities that are apt
to present themselves for long time
but in the meantime the manual
calls for organic technical prepara
tion for civil war by the formation
of communist workers into military
bands, accumulation of stores or
arms, attempts to proselitiZe among
the soldiers Of the state armies. rail
readers, etc, and embarrassing the
existing regime by bombing attempts
rioting and other acts of violence.
For opportunity to realize their
plans, the bolshevist leaders count on
renewal of war in Europe, believing
as Trotsky explained in recent
speech, that any future international
wars must inevitably develop, as 1T
Russia, into civil war through the
rising of the communist proletariat
against the government Because
they fear that the adoption of the
Dawes report may remove the torch
from too dangerous proximity to the
powder-keg of Franco-German rela-