Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-03
BY SIR PHILIP GIBBS.

! By Cable to The Star.
| LONDON. July 3.-The majority of
English people are becoming perturb-
| ed and angry by the undoubted evil
dence that Soviet Russia is sending
over money and corresponding with
| British Communists in order to pro-
long the coal strike and cause revolu-
| tionary trouble by preventing any set
Element which may restore British in
dustry.
Debates in Parliament show that
there are many Conservatives who
view this as international treachery
and are strongly in favor Of breaking
off diplomatic relations with Russia
in spite Of the government refusal.
Winston Churchill and Lord Birken-
head have denounced Moscow with a
violence that would have been suffi-
cient with any ordinary government
to cause immediate severance of diplo-
matte intercourse and possibly a
declaration of war.
But Soviet Russia is no ordinary
government and it's leaders are not
sensitive to accusations against their
morality and honor. They content
themselves with cold denial of any
political intrigue against the British
constitution and assert that the money
sent is in aid of British miners wives
and children and does not come from
government sources, but is volun-
tary levy by Russian trade unions in
a spirit of charity and comradeship.
1t is, however, obvious to all but
prejudiced brains, blind to truth, that
such large contributions, amounting
to many hundreds of thousands OF
pounds, could not have been collected
by Russian factory workers on starva-
ton wages.
Whole Game Given Away.
The whole game is given away by
an official manifesto just issued by
the Third International denounc1ng
the spirit of compromise which is APP
nearing in the latest speeches or the
miners leaders in Great Britain and
urging British Communists to do all
in their power to prevent any KIND
of settlement. The truth is that Wnlle
the Soviet government associates IL
self from all revolutionary agitation
in England, it's political propaganda
departments are busily at work buy
ing, corrupting and poisoning men
of evil character or weak heads In
Great Britain for the one and only
nurpose of causing social revolution.
When / was in Russia, during the
year of the great famine, l met one
man. the notorious Radek, who made
no secret Of that idea and purpose.
Sitting there in an untidy room IN
Kremlin, Uttered with books in all
languages, this red-headed man with
horn-rimmed spectacles was cynical IN
his ayowals. He talked very little or
communism, which had ceased to in
terest him, but great deal ABOUT
Russia s ambitions as a world power
and he said that as long as the British
Empire conflicted with Russian inter
ests in world affairs, it was only
natural and inevitable that Russian
propaganda and secret agents would
do ali they could to stir up trouble
in India. Afghanistan and wherever
they could weaken British influence.
That policy continues unofficially, ana
il is in England itself that Russian
nropaganda hopes to stir up most or
the trouble by causing 1ndustrlal
naralvsis and social strife.
The Blue Book just published by
the British government proves that
the Communist party in Great Britain
is acting under direct orders from
MOSCOW and that it's organization and
literature are supported by RUSSIAN
money.
Paid Agents Elsewhere.
In London, Glasgow, Sheffield and
other cities there are Semi-educated
young men, mostly of the clerical
class, who have been appointed as
paid agents of social revolution. They
produce miserable little sheets filled
with class hatred and appeals to mob
passion, which they publish in back
parlors and distribute to little groups
of their own class. Outside factory
gates they slip dangerous little leaf
let's into the hands of workingmen.
At night, after working hours. they
get up on wooden boxes and address
Arowds at street corners with hyster-
2al appeals against capitalism. the
Middle classes and the idle rich.
LLOYD George has ridiculed this