Evening star., 1941-10-05


the Quislings in the world, are fighting
with the utmost vigor and persistence
to conquer the whole world, and the
British are in part resisting.
But the only forces that are fighting
the Germans whole-heartedly are the
British air force, the Russian people,
the British fleet, some American ships
and a miscellany of BritiSh-led forces in
the Near East
we have considerable accumulat tionS of
troops in the Near East but they are
not yet fighting the Germans. They
have been cleaning up one of the little
mistakes of that most disastrous individ-
ual. Field Marshal Lord Ironside of
Archangel For Rizah Shah of Persia
Dram, who has blockaded our co-opera-
ton with Russia, was Ironsides crea-
ton.
In Great Britain we have, it is true,
some millions of men under arms, but
they are not actually fighting; they are
being of hardly more use TO our magnif1-
cent Russian allies than if they were
occupying the moon. The rank and file
OF these paralyzed armies of ours are
on the verge of mutiny. Let not DR..
Joseph Goebbels rejoice at that. They
want to get at the Germans.
To relieve their tension, that remark
able Spitsbergen expedition was devised
in which, for no earthly reason, we
burnt up a lot of badly needed coal.
Look at Spitsbergen on your map.
Time for Plain Speech.
' The time is over-ripe for perfectly
plain speech about our relations to the
Soviet Union. Since the beginning of
the Russo German war, with the eX-
ceptions have named. British military
performance has not impressed man
kind. but has been heSitant and unde-
cided and the reason for this indecisive-
ness is the thinly concealed distaste of
our ruling class for honest co-opera
ton with the Russian people.
II is no good for Ernest BeVln Min
lister Of Labor to shout "Quisling" at
me tor saying that. The truth is more
blatant even than Ernest Bevin. The
Russians, after the intolerable indignities
and disasters of 1914-1T. got rid of their
Czarist tophamper. to the infinite dismay
of our British tophamper We have a
large literature written from our top
hamper point of view, from Sir Sam
uel Hoares ridiculous The Fourth Seal"
to Gen Bridwood's Memories"
These people made not the slightest
attempt to understand what was hap
pening in that great tragic country, Rus
sia. They knew hardly anything of Boil
shevism except that it assailed their
privileges and pretensions and encour-
aged the lower classes and on that ac-
count they were blindly and frantically
anti-Bolshevik
An Oxford University press pamphlet
on the Baltic is very Illuminating on
this point While the British Govern
ment was making a peace at Versailles
that was to lend German aggression
forever 1t was at the same time CO.
operating with German armies in the
Baltic provinces against the Bolsheviks.
There was German army of $4,000 men
there under Gen. Won Der Goltz.
Bias Still Exists.
The Germans were actually beginning
then "the second Punic war" as they
now call it, before the first was fairly
ended. The signing of the Versailles
treaty produced certain diplomatic en-
barrassment, which was not over in
single might by inventing a Russian
prince and declaring the army of Won
Der Goltz his subject and so White
Russian citizens.
Our governing class has not changed
Its anti-Bolshevik bias en- bloc simply
because the Germans have launched an
nl-judged onslaught against Russia. I
believe there has been very honest at
tempt on the part of number of men,
who at bottom care more for England
than for their class privileges, to come
around to rational attitude but I am
bound to say that I still detect consid-
erable resistance to fighting all-out with
Russia as an ally and tendency to find
excuses for unhelpfulness.
The British people have to overcome
that reluctance. 1t is the way to dis
aster. We cannot afford to half-help our
stoutest ally. Reactionary- minded peo-
pie, who dream of sneaking back pres
emily to the dear old order of things
would do we'll to ponder the fact that
at the words 'it is for Bolshevik Russia"
our munition workers have blazed with
astounding enthusiasm
In war against totalitarian assault,
the only thing to do is to fight. 1t is not
enough to take 1t" You have to give
It" After your home has been blown to
smithereens and your mother killed and
you have been kicked about as hard and
contemptuously as q human being can
be kicked, it is not really heroic to wait
Tor the next booting and be Photographed
with an idiot grin and holding your
thumbs up and saying I'VE can take it."
Don't take it. Fight. There is no other
way out for you but defeat and dis
honor, and if some anti-Bolshevik mill
taxy expert gets in your way to prevent
you from doing so, you must treat him
as an enemy.
Meneuvers Scorned.
Which brings me to these maneuvers
and military exercises that are going on
here and in America. They are astound-
ing. Instead of turning our attention
to the business in hand we are indulg-
ing both here and in America in the
most extraordinary shadow-b boxing it is
possible to imagine. I find the illus
trated papers full of stupendous military
eoings-on. Before me as write is a
picture OF "Britain's mechanical might;
en- imposing spectacle of a complete