GENOA AND AFTER.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 19 April 1922, Page 8

GENOA AND AFTER.

TROTSKY MAKES A SPEECH. ] RED ARMY'S MAILED FIST. Trotsky's harangue in Moscow* on February 2 in connection with the fes- ; tival at the formation of a new Rad Tank Brigade was significant in view • of' the forthcoming Genoa Conference, I states the Morning Post's special correspondent at Helsihgfors. If, he said, ! the Western European bourgeoisie should ask on what foundation the So-1 viet Republic rested, the answer would be, "Come and see this festival." „ He proceeded: Peace now prevails, but we know quite well that the present |.ei«ce* will not last long, that there can i>e no re^ce before the whole world belongs to the Red workmen and peasants. . ~ . They have now promised to recognise us at Genoa. The Western F.uropean burgeoisie thinks that it invites us to a conference only of our paying our debts, of our agreeing to make concessions, of our consenting to a dissolution of the Third Internationale. . . Do not think that Western European diplomacy is in a briljUant position. Western diplomatists live in ir.i:lual enmity, like cats and dogs. At Genoa j (I only whisper this to you, do not tell i everyobdy) we shall exept all our efforts ' to set the cats and dogs on each other ■ . till the dust flies. And while they are ] fighting each other we shall know how to profit by it. If as a result of the Genoa Conference, said Trotsky, general conditions improved, Soviet Russia would be able to send home another class, but if the conference proved fruitless, the fliploma- ! tits would come home, "and then," he cried "we shall lie ready for action. ' I "If we are compelled to have recourse to arms we shall call up the 1902 cias-s, we shall be better prepared than-ever before to beat off all ati-aeks. Poumania. Poland and the ie-t, which will attempt to fall on us -at the bidding of the Entente, will meet the Red Army's mailed fist, and then there will be no question of any peace i agotintions until peasants and workmen are in full possession of r>o\ver in Poland, lloumania and Finland." ;' The publication of the All-Russian . Executive Central Committee of a de- . cree stating that the Che-ka is to be i suppressed has been forecasted in the ; Morning Post. The details of this C policy of "eye-wash" are not without mll terest. Its functions are to be handed I to the Commissariat for Domestic AfI fairs, a special section being created, | under the presidency of the Commissary himself. The duties of the new section are thus defined:. To prevent open activity from the side of counter-revolutionaries and also banditism. To take measures to preserve public - security and combat espionage. To protect communications. To protect the frontiers of Soviet s Russia in the political sense. 3 1 To combat smuggling and the illegal £ crossing of frontiers of Soviet Russia. I To carry out special instructions oi the presidency of the Executive Central Committee and Council of Peoples' Commissaries for the preservation of revolutionary order. _ It will be remembered that Dzer jinsky, the creator of the Che-ka, and for three years its head, some time . ago became Commissary for Domestic Affairs, and was succeeded as head of th© Che-ka by a Jew (Unsehlicht). The latter succeeded in making the Che-ka . for practical purposes independent of the Government, and in excluding Dzerjmsky from all influence over the organisation he himself had created Dzerpnskv has now, after a severe struggle behind the scenes, gained a v'cto. ry. foi> the whole personnel of the Che-ka has now been transferred to the > new section of the Commissariat for Doi mestic Affairs, except Unschlicht, who i, has resigned.