Nelson Evening Mail TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1926. BOLSHEVIST DISSENSIONS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 19 January 1926, Page 4

Nelson Evening Mail TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1926. BOLSHEVIST DISSENSIONS

THE news recently received Iron) line sia. while far from explicit, indicates the existence of (onsideral.le disagree nient among the leudeis of the tommu nist minority which rules that country. The llussiaii Communist I’ariv numbers in.del' a million mi lull, ts, and until re cenilv was dominated hy the powerful t ritini virale Stalin. K:•mein v. Zinc viev In tin* friction and animosity which recently Were created, seemingly over the status which should be assigned to Trotsky, wlm had been banished temporarily to the Caucasus, it seems that the power of the trio, belm'e-nieii-tioned, lias been broken. I’til there is nothing strange in this disunion among the leaders of a political movement which lost its leader and originator, when Nikolai Lenin died. Nb - one man lias arisen to take 1 1 is place and C " political history of Russia since hi« death has been tin- futile attempt of bis disciples to govern without a leadei Tlmir mutual jealousies liave' paralysed

their .iilministratinii, and their fear lest i'u-i• disunion and •vn-imhint ions should encourage rebellion against- their rule, lias caused them n> use unnecessary severitv towards those whom they imagine are planning the overthrow of tlieir government. I’or instance. lasi summer they learned that the Russian colony in Paris proposed to ereati a fund for the relief of the alumni of the Imperial Alexander Academy of i eeingmil. They immediately interpre ted this charitable movement to be a iiliml for propaganda against the Soviet regime, and seizing all the graduates of the Academy whom they could lay hand:- on. liny executed sixteen of t in-in including Prim e Nicholas to,lit ill, t( 1( . Czar’:'. Log Pi irne Minister, and deported Si I;, nilmis In North Russia At U,e same lime they sentenced Princess Olga Volkonsky, who had opened a fortune-telling parlour, in order that she might earn a humble living. to three years’ imprisonment, on the charge of practising clairvoyance! It is ipiite evident- I hat. the Uolslievist lenders are nervous lest llicir dis union and incompetence as rulers .-■lioiild cause a revolution in tavour of the Gram! Duke Cyril, who resides in a German palace near Coburg, awaiting the day when Hie Russian people will summon him to return and reign in the Kremlin. Interviewed not. long ago bv a Danish journalist, lie expressed himself as sure that the time would come when the Cossacks and the peasants “will speak their weighty word" which will recall him to Russia to rule over them, and will invite him to reign as a patriarch, a despot absolute hut benevolent- “Then. lie declared, “he would restore private properly, vigorously enforce the law. maintain order .and grant security. personal lights and freedom of nationalities and religions.” When asked what lorm his government would take, he said that perhaps Russia’s future regime will approach that of the f nited States—-n number of individual States united in a, centrnlistic union owning allegiance to a Car of All the Russins. The Grand Duke Cvril’s dream may. or may not. come trim. Rut one thing is certain : that the dissensions among the Bolshevist leaders render them powerless to create trouble outside tlieir borders. The Roumanians, at present, have nothing |o fear as regards Bessarabia, Poland is safe from attack. The Baltic States Latvia, Esllioiiia. Lithuania—are safe enough, for the present at least. There will he no movement against India. The Turks need expect no support from Russia, in regard to any plans they may have for seizing Mosul. The Bolshevist lenders, divided among themselves, and cognisant that nine-tenths of the Russian people dislike them, have all they can do to maintain themselves at home, without engaging in enterprises which would ruin them, abroad.