Evening star., 1938-02-19
DR.. WALSH SEES
SOVIET BREAKING
Georgetown Vice President
Says Stain Fosters World
Revolution.

Moderation has given way to ter
rorism in Soviet Russia and signs
Of growing generalization point to
significant proofs Of internal break
down." DR.. Edmund A. Walsh. S. j..
vice president of Georgetown Uniyer-
sity. warned last night.
Speaking under auspices of the
Foreign Service School, DR.. Walsh
opened his l4th annual commentary
on the Russian revolution and world
Communism before an audience that
hlled Memorial Continental Hall. "As
the fever chart mounts both within
and without Russia" he warned, lit
is the time for clear vision on the
bridge of the ship of state and a
steady hand at the wheel"
After tracing the rise of revolu-
tionary thought prior to the Bolshevik
triumph Of 20 years ago. the George
town priest-educator said:
"The fortunes of the Soviet state
and of its ally, world Communism, are
at their lowest ebb since 1927. All
the signs point to growing demorali-
zation in the high staff of the inter-
national revolution with no Lenin
now available to impose moderation.
Instead, terrorism mounts as fear
renders Mr.. Stain desperate"
Specifies Incidents.
DR.. Walsh cited several recent in
cidents as indications Of this internal
Decentralization
"Mr. Troyanovsky. Soviet Ambassa-
dor to the United States, revealed the
desperation that now grips the COM
missars in his speech at the Univer-
sity OF North Carolina on February g."
he said. Abandoning the accepted
diplomatic usage which forbids am
bassadors or ministers Of foreign states
to appeal directly to the people among
whom they reside, he publicly advo-
Gated an alliance with Soviet Russia
Of which the United States should
form part"
DR.. Walsh said that Joseph Stain
on February IA had dropped his mask
entirely"
"The dictator appealed for help to
the international proletariat exactly
as Trotzky did at Brest-Litovsk in
1913" he explained in a statement of
foreign policy that must have
stunned the few remaining apologists
who have been assuring the world
that the previous international revo-
1utionary program had been scrapped
ut Moscow.
Executes 5000 Victims.
Having executed nearly 5000 VIC
tins In the last IL months within
Russia. he new appeals to world Com
munism to stand by for the final
crisis. Though couched in language
that seems at points to indicate the
opposite, his statement on analysis
IS clearly reafflrmation of the thesis
for world revolution, which Mr.. Trot-
sky presumably was exiled for sup
porting
After destroying Mr.. Trotsky's
reputation, Mr.. Stain has confiscated
his ideas, for basically his foreign
policy includes the necessity Of world
revolution"
The final sign DR.. Walsh cited was
the mysterious disappearance on Feb
suary Of the Soviet envoy At Buch-
Arest. The Soviet commissars charged
IN eject, he said, that their represen-
tative had been kidnapped by Fascists,
but Mr.. Butenko turned up in Rome
. few days ago seeking protection,
and explained that his flight was due
to fear of being kidnapped by the Rus
sion secret police "for return to Mos
COW, where possible execution awaited
him"
The lectures will continue on sue
cessive Friday evenings at $50 o'clock
IN Memorial Continental Hall.