RUSSIA AND PEACE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 277, 23 November 1927, Page 6

RUSSIA AND PEACE.

The Soviet Government has issued an explanation of its resolve to send delegates to the Disarmament Commission at Geneva. If we could regard this decision as representing* a sincere desire for peace with all the world we would welcome it as one of the most hopeful "signs of the times" recorded since the war. But it is impossible to attach any value to such assurances from a body of men who base their whole policy upon the doctrine of the "class war," and are expending an immense amount of energy and money in the effort to extend the "class war" in a violent and destructive form throughout the world. The charge brought by the "peaceful" | Bolshevik State against the "capitalist" Powers, that it is they who are responsible for armaments and for the menace of war, is almost sublime in its shameless impudence. But happily it is not likely to delude anyone but fanatical Marxists, or to injure anyone but the unfortunate victims of the "dictatorship of the proletariat" under whose sway i Russia now groans.