CIVIL WAR IN RUSSIA

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, 24 March 1921, Page 4

CIVIL WAR IN RUSSIA

CONSIDERING, in the Nineteenth Century, ‘ I’Vio Moaning of Civil 'War I in Russia,’’ Dr. Harold Williams says that Hie military .successes of the Bolsheviks up to the present time have been due to the fact that- they are a small and compact body, with a, narrow and definite purpose, and' ruthless and fanatical energy in’ carrying it. out. They hold the cen-. tye and the resources of Government, and rule with brutally autocratic methods. Their object is to remain in; power at all costs, nniil they can; bring about a world revolution. I he 1 Anti-Bolsheviks represent all sorts of political parties and tendencies. They 'all want Russia, hul their conceptions of Ihe political ami social structure of Russia vary, 'they are members ,>* many parties of widely divergent views, though they are all temporarily united in hitler hatred of the Bolsheviks. and in a desire for an idea! Russia. Vet in action their counsels| are divided, and against the sharply: end aggressive on I lined Bolshevik dogma they can set up only a conception of Russia blurred by disunion. Pm |her, they operate mostly from the coniines of the eftuniry, while the Bolsheviks have all the material resources of the rent re. Dependence on foreign support places them at a disadvantage, and frequently limits their freedom of action. Other difficulties have been caused by the cruelgenee of new nations in Russian territory, and by vacillations in A died policy. Under these and other difficulties the fmicess of the reconstruction of Russia must he one.of gradual and painful experiment. The overthrow of the Bolsheviks is neeesssary jto prevent the evil ol their illllueilCt | spreading to other countries in E.irope, .....