WORLD REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 90, 13 October 1923, Page 13

WORLD REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT

HOW SHALL WE MEET IT ?

The Welfare League writes

-.' 'Boudoir politicians insist that a fair chance' be given Soviet Russia. What does it mean? While it is true that so far not one of the civilised nations has recognised the Soviet "Government, the reason for it lies in the fact that immediately after the November revolution of 19"j.7 the Soviot Government itself declared war against the whole universe. -o

"On 13th December, Lenin and Irotzky issued an ordinance assigning twt. million rouble 3 for international revolutionary propaganda purposes. In accordance with this decree Soviet 'ambassadors' were sent to all countries with instructions to promote revolutionary propaganda, foment international dissension, and incite class hatred Thus Joffe proceeded to Berlin, Voiovsky to Stockholm,. Finkelstein '.Litvinoff) to London, Varshavsky (alias Brensky) to \ lenna, and Ludwig C. A. K. Martens to the United States. . Everywhere these Soviet emissaries stirred up political mischief, and after a short sojourn the respective intelligence officers became keenly interested in their activities. In all countries the Soviet 'ombassios' have become centres of destructive revolutionary propaganda on an international scale ..began in -December, 1918, when the first International Communist Congress was .summoned in Petrograd. The following countries wore represented by delegates :—United Slates, England, North China, Austria. Holland, Germany,, Serbia, Bulgaria,' -Finland, Turkestan, Buchara,'Persia, India, Korea, France. . ' ' ' '

CONCENTRATING ON THE EAST.

"The Soviet leaders rre confronted with the fact that Western labour is dihicult to move, and at present their main concentration is on the East. A congress of Mohammedans and Bolsheviks was held in. Baku. It included representatives from Hedjas, Syria, Afghanistan, Persia, Turkestan, Azarbeydjan, Anatolia, and -India The Western world is still alarmingly uninformed about Soviot propaganda tactics. It fails to grasp ths fact that most of the propaganda is camouflag-id to meet the local, national, racial, and religious circumstances, and that moderate socialism and labour is used everywhere for the extreme ends sought of violent world revolution. . The chief centre is in the East, but it is not expected to stay there.

, "4i F esent> tlle sinister influence of the Third Internationale is being felt practically in every country in the world. However backward particular nations may be, whatever their economic, status is, Communist propaganda makes its headway everywhere, appealing, not, so much to the common-sense of the peoples as to their basest instincts,, to their greed, envy, and inborn indolence. Everywhere agents of Lenin and Trotzky are busy fomenting dissension, rivalry, and class hatred. Wherever there is unrest one may be sure to find a Bolshevist agitator 'on the job.'

"For the sake of humanityUhis enem 1' ot Western civilisation must be defeated. .

"There can be no compromise with the Attilas of the Twentieth Century. To compromise is surrender. It is only the coward who surrenders in face of impending danger. There is no other issue than to accept the challenge. The strategic plan of the enemy is known There is no mystery about it. This plan itself predetermines the measures of defence to be adopted by those who are attacked. The enemy preaches class hatred. The answer to this challenge is cooperation between the classes. The enemy strives for economic destruction which must be counteracted by economic construction. The enemy seeks to undermine religious faith. Accordingly the consolidation of religious faith and the fight against atheism must be unred The enemy spreads the plague of internationalism. There is no other way to combat this plague than by giving support to the national ideal and national traditional. The enemy appeals to the ignorant. He uses the ignorance of the masse 3as a mems of throwing them under his control. Ignorance can and must be combated by education. The enemy is trying to dissolve the family because it is the nucleus of the present social order. There is probably no task more urgent to-day than the protection of the family and its stabilisation. The enemy has declared war on: art ard beauty and accordingly, it has Income the duty of the enlightened rn-t- of humanity to cultivate art and bomty to disarm brutality by aesthetics to bring nearer to the masses the immortal creations of genius. Such are the lines ot defence, such are the tactics. "It will be said by some, 'Oh, but these are matters merely for the old countries; they do not affect New Zealand. ' That is just what the advocal.es ot world revolution want—apathy, indifference, and the conviction that all is sate and well. New Zealand, however is not outside the circle of influence! The forces making for revolution arc at work here, as elsewhere, and are regularly assisted by emissaries ftom outside. The methods of progress «->re so subtie that our people fail to realisa how widespread the influence has gone The duty of all who think rationally i 3 to combat this evil wherever it is found in the interests of our country our Empire, and of humanity." '