SOVIET BLIND SPOT

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 4, 5 July 1927, Page 15

SOVIET BLIND SPOT

NO SENSE OF HUMOUR

(From "The Post's;'' Representative.)^'. . -;v" LONDON, 4th May.' There seems 1 .to'be something about Bussian Communism which, araoiig ''.'its native professors, no less than ".among their loving aisciple.s in our. own country, is peculiarly destruetiyd''of a sense of humour. .. : :'; , ,

'I fancy," says a correspondent of the "Times// "however, that even Mr. Cook would b'e.disposoa to admit that Mr. Bukharin's»jament over the def action.'of. Chiang j Kai-shek, which you quote? i rb'in the! Soviet Government organ, 'Jzvestia/ establishes a new high record/'3h humourlcssness. 'We pre-tendea,^-says' Mh Bukharin; 'to make common 'causawith Chiang Kai-shek bocause He was a useful companion for a long part of the journey towards tho proletarian revolution." Wo were proparing for the inevitable clash with him and were mobilising the masses against him, but he dealt us a treacherous blow before we wore ready.' "In other words, the tiresome fellow did not wait quite long enough for Bukharin and company to betray him; ho had the bad taste to anticipate their treachery and go off on his own. Chiang Kai-shek clearly does not know how to play the game; .one wonders where he can have been brought "up " " 85, Fleet street. v ; : :\;- , ..-