Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-09
RED GRIP LOST In CHINA \
AS TROTSKY PREDICTED
Former Communist Leader. Now in Exile,
Urged Strong Measures and Criticized
Stalin's Passive Plan.
- ROTSKY was right. The Com
munists have lost out in China
as he said they would.
II He is in exile in Central Asia

as he said they would
i He is in exile in Central Asia
because he insisted upon criti-
;zing the methods of his fellow Com
'runists in respect to the revolution in
china Events have shown he knew
what he was talking about, but littlc
c:ood has that done him. Stain, in
power in Moscow. has not sent him an
apology nor invited him back.
Trotsky said that the Komintern. the
active arm of the Third Internationale
was not mixing in the Chinese revolu-
ton with sufficient energy to get 1t
anywhere Aided by the even more con-
vincing orator, Zlnoviev. he tried to tell
the executive committee of the Com
munist party 1t must throw all its
weight and fortune into supporting the
Chinese coolies so they would overrun
the Kuomintang. the Chinese national
ist organization, and change the revo-
luton Sun Vat Sen started into boil
shevik movement.
The Komintern, instead. let the Chi
nese run their own revolution. 1t is
true 1t went ahead in China as If 1t
we're going to turn the Kuomintang into
Soviet organization, but it had only
one agent of its own. Borodin, on the
Job. Trotsky. Zinoviev and the others
of the opposition warned their fellows
they would never win China to bolshe-
vism that way.
Chinese Tricked Borodin.
The willy members of the Kuomin-
tang let Borodin think China was going
bolshevik. AS long as the Russian Com
munists we've useful to them they used
them. Trotsky realized now they we're
being used and feared the end would
be what it is.
The Russian Communists were also
considerable aid to the Chinese ma
tionalists. Karakhan, the Soviet AM
bassador in Peking. intrigued for several
| years among the Chinese war lords and
| Slapped their strength. The Kuomintang
| gained in proportion.
Then Chinese Communists. educated
| in Moscow, worked UP the spirit of in
surrection in South China in a way the
members of the Kuomintang had never
succeeded in doing. At the same time
other Chinese Communists. educated In
| MOSCOW, undermined the power OF
Chang Tso-Lin In the north. i
| Finally last year the Chinese Com
| nunists directed by Borodin and his
! group organized one coolie demonstra
ton after another in Canton. Shanghai
Marking and Hankow. 1t looked even
! as If they were getting control of the
Kuomintang especially when the Soviet
| and Kuon1intang flags we're joined and
| the demonstrators carried the photo
graph of Lenin with that of Sun Vat
Sen.
But that only went as far as it was
useful to the Chinese nationalists. II
| was TrotSky's idea that the Chinese
were to be rushed off their feet by a
proletarian mass which would set ur
the dictatorship of the p-oletariat in
| Canton or Marking and 50 face the
bourgeois world with a double Soviet
state of 500,000,000 people. Trotsky
| had in mind the formula of Lenin, tc
| use nationalist movements to work ur
| the proletariat to revolutionary heat
then overwhelm the nationalist with
the weight of the working masses
Let Opportunity Slip.
To be successful, Moscow should have
| poured agitators and money into China
When the Soviet legation in Peking wa
raided 1t should have broken off witt
! the Picking government and penetrated
into every corner of China with its boil
shevik propaganda. 1t did not do so
1t let the Kuomintang slip out Of its
! grasp. 1t took the raiding OF It's Pc.
king legation mildly 1t was. to tn:
disgust OF the exiled opposition, soft
and ineffective.
Whether Trotsky could have turned
| China bolshevik is another matter. Sta
| Inns method was certainly not suffi-
GENTLY energetic to do it.
The Third Internationale is too dis
gusted with China to discuss why il
! failed. 1t put in five years preparing
! for what 1t believed would be the boil
shevik revolution of China. and finds
that all 1t has done is to aid the Chi
nesc nationalist, the Kuomintang, the
bourgeois Of China, get control
OF the two big receptions of the
Third Internationsle this is perhaps the
worst. At least it is its second. and
has added that much of lost endeavor to
| its ether great failure. Germany.
1t had high hopes of Germany. In
| fact. 1t set its hopes of world revolu-
| ton on Germany. In that world apart
of revolutionists, it is now revealed