Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-22
The Internationalist Program.

Those who have felt of late that the
bolshevists. who have seized govern
ment In Russia have abandoned their
purpose to internationalize the world
through the spread and esta blishment
of their principles in all countries,
should note the words of Zinovieff
chairman Of the executive committee
OF the Communist 1nternationale. Ac
cording to an authentic report OF his
statement to that committee Al a meet
ing just held he procla inns il to be still
the purpose OF his organization to
throughout the world. He said:
Our methods may undergo some
changes. but not on the proletarian
revolution itself. which is our basic
and single objective. History makes
the dictatorship of the proletariat the
order OF the day. In our struggle
against imperialism it is necessary to
create new fulcrums. not only in
China. where we have succeeded, but
In South America, where imperialism
Expresses whole series of small ma
lions. Here we can succeed in mobiliz.
ing not only the workers, but wide
strata of the peasantry.
In admitting. as Zinoviefr proceeded
to do. that the internationale has a
difficult task in the United States, he
virtually serves notice that this coun-
try is an objective Of bolshevik inter
nationalism. Reference to South Amer
lea Is a plain indication of a purpose
TO flank the United States. The Soviet
has already been at work in Mexico.
Evidently it now proposes to attack
the whole of the Southern continent
and work northward
Scouts and spies Of bolshevism are
already at work in this country, some
of them openly. some disguised. They
are busy in many quarters and in diff.
ferent lines. Some of them, sad to say.
are established in the educational in
stitutions. preaching and teaching in
ternationalism, and, it has recently de-
veloped. 'softening' nationalism. Per.
haps some Of these educational In
f1uences are unconscious of their asso-
citation in spirit with the malevolent
force at Moscow, but their mischief Is
none the less menace to our institu-
tions of government.
The frank admission of Zinovieff
that the organiza ton of which he is
the head will whatever the changes
of method required by changing condi-
tions. continue to seek the destruction
of existing governments in other
lands. should occasion no surprise.
China. as he acknowledges. has been
definitely the scene of bolshevist
propaganda, militant and in some
measure successful. In Japan. Zinovieff
admits the position of the Communists
is exceptionally weak" But that
does not signify that the reds will
cease their endeavors there. They
will persist with probably the same
methods they are adopting in the
within"
In the light of this frank avowal of
government destroying purpose on the
part of the international Communists
educators of this country. who are just
at present in session in Washington,
to consider deeply the question which
has been raised recently regarding the
teaching of history upon an interna-
tional oasis. If they are not aware Of
the fact that through their soften
ing" Of nationalistic teachings they
are themselves carrying on the propa-
ganda of destruction directed from
Moscow, the educators are. indeed,
themselves sadly in need Of enlighten-
ment.