BOLSHEVISM'S TWO FACES

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 38, 13 August 1921, Page 6

BOLSHEVISM'S TWO FACES

•DRAWBACKS OF DUPLICITY.

Bolshevism n\ present has two "soul faces," one, the Third International, to fight foreign capitalism; the ' other, tho Soviet Government, to make friends with / it. That this, duplicity has drawbacks, internal as well as external (wrote the special correspondent in Berlin of London Daily Telegraph in June last), is evjdent from a confidential Bolshevik document published by Volia Rosaii,: the •Prague organ of the Social Revolutionaries. This document is, a report by the Western European section of the i Propaganda Department of the Third International, in which an attempt is made to explain the "threatened collapse of the entire edifice of Communistic agitation." Thisi is ascribed to tho impossibility , of carrying but simultaneously two mutually destructive policies. "While the tactics of tho Soviet Government," s*ys the report; "is.to endeavour by all available means to'effect compromise agreements with Western capital, our tack—the task of the Communistic International—which, under no circumstances can or should compromise [with capital, is diametrically opposed to the task of tfio Soviet Government."' . ' . „- ■*■'.. It is further pointed out that the official representatives of the Soviet Government cannot remain .unaffected by the new 6pi'rit of its foreign policy. They "cannot carry on negotiations with capitalists, and simultaneously fulfil tho tasks, imposed upon.thorn by the Central Committee of the Third International and the party." It is therefore urged that • the time haa "now come'for the Third International '.'finally to break off .all relations with the official representatives of Soviet Russia," ,in order to free the hands of/ both. The recent Communist rising in Germany "proved finally the futility of the general conduct-of the affair, for, at; thatl time, the executive agents were confronted with the dilemma of either maintaining tho party discipline to the prejudice of tho prestigo of tho Soviet representation or of brea'cing the party discipline." The report sees only one way ! out of the dilemma—tho International should have its own service of couriers and financial agencies.. . I