The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-11
The French Government and its Role
in the Preparations for Intervention.

in the Preparations for Intervention.
Whilst the Trade and Industrial Commit
tee, as an association of the former Russian
industrialists, set itself the main task of
regaining possession of its former property,
the government circles of France set them
selves more general task: the consolidation
of the position of world imperialism, after the
overthrow of the Soviet power with the aid
of military Intervention. The Soviet Union
is thorn in the flesh of the beurgeoisie of
France The French bourgeoisie, personify-
ing the general political reaction in Western
Europe, set itself the task of destroying the
Soviet Union by means of military inter-
vention, actuated thereto by its general
political interests, entirely independent of
the like initiative in the Trade and Indus
trial Committee and in the Russian sabotage
organizations. And whilst the Trade and
Industrial Committee was anxious to obtain
the aid of the armed forces of the interna
tional bowgeoise, and especially of the
French, for its ends, on the other hand the
French bourgeoisie was equally anxious to
exploit for its aims both the Trade and In
dustrial Committee and the sabotage organ
izations in the Soviet Union.
Here the French governmental circles,
whilst pursuing their own independent policy
fell in Internationally with the aims of the
Trade and Industrial Committee, and the
visits paid to France by the two leaders of
the Central Committee of the Industrial
Party Ramzin and Laritchev were made
full use of by precisely these circles, with
the INTERPRETATION of the Trade and Indus
trial Committee for the furtherance of their
aims. Here the october conference played
definite part.
For the rest, the extent to which the gov
eminent circles of France were directly in
terested in the idea of a speedy realization of
the ntervention-directly interested in the
sense of impartial conquest enabling the
wealth of the Soviet Union to be exploited
by foreign capitalists-may be seen fairly
plainly in the statement made by Fyedotov
on 21st of october, 1880:
''Charnovsky informed me that conf
Dental message had been received from
Ramzin, to the effect that during his stay
In Paris he had been obliged to agree, in the
name of the sabotage organizations, to the
granting of concessions to the Intervention
lists at the expense of Russia, these conces-
sions having been agreed to by the Trade
and Industrial Committee: The cession of
a part of Caucasia to England, especially the
oil industry region, and of Ukrainian ter
ritory on the right bank of the Dniepr to
Poland and France.
"On this I pointed out to Charnovsky"-
continues Fyedotoy-that Karpov+) had on
the contrary assured us, on behalf of the
Trade and Industrial Committee, that in the
case of an intervention the interests of the
State were not to be violated, and had re-
quested the engineers of the textile group to
be informed of this, and that 7 refused to
pass on this message from Ramzin to our
sabotage organization, and begged Charnov-
sky to inform Kupriyanov and Nolde per-
Sonally.'
In another statement, made by Fyedotov
on 10th Of october. 1880, he states that
Karpov, whom he met in Berlin in 1928, de-
clared to him that:
a.. Both France and Poland calculate on
the subsequent exploitation of the inner
wealth Of Russia by means of various con-
cessions, whilst Poland hopes at the same
time to find markets in Russia, but that not
one OF the members Of the Trade and IN
dustrial Committee intends betraying the
Interests ct Russia as a State, and that,
should SUCH fears arise anywhere, they should
White Guard emigre textile industrialist.