AIMS TO PROVOKE WAR.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15594, 10 August 1921, Page 5

AIMS TO PROVOKE WAR.

! LONDON, June 3.--Tlie Morning Post publishes extracts from a document, which it has every reason to believe is genuine, • giving instructions issued by i’cliitelieriii, the Bolshevik commissary for .foreign affairs, to the diplomatic amt financial representatives of Soviet Russia in England, Germany, Italy, and Czecho-Slovakia. 'They are dated February 6, 1921, and marked “absolutely stferet.” They read:—

“The three-ycars-long victorious struggle oil the. interior fronts against tiie agents of world Imperialism lias elided with the full triumph of the workers and peasants of Russia. We are now face to face with the forces of Imperialistic capitalism, which directed Denikine, Kolchak, and Wrangel and which, up to the present, were hidden from us, but- with which we must enter into open conflict.

“We must admit iliis conflict is to begin at the moment most disadvantageous to us. Our country, is exhausted by the uninterrupted struggle of seven years duration. The Red Army is, as yet, far below the level at which we would wish Lo see it. Among the wearied population is developing a very natural apathy and inertia. The difficulty of Socialist vecoiistruction of (lie whole State building is so great that it hardly is possible to hope for the lealisation of all JJio necessary technical and material forces.

“Under suclrconditions the whole future of Soviet Russia will depend on the skilful exploitation of the present political situation of Europe. The present order in .Europe satisfies no one. Indeed. it cannot satisfy anyone, and all the time, with the increasing potentiality of the menaces of war. bourgeois diplomacy will soon he absolutely unable to solve the questions always ripening and always put off. War alone can lead out of the hopeless situation in which are at present all the lands of Western Europe, and whatever say sentimentalists, all the nations are unconsciously attracted toward war.

“Wo .arc. vapidly approaching the moment why bv force of logic of history itself, capitalistic diplomatists will inevitably, perhaps consciously, be led to commit, a blunder, and all our efforts, must bo directed towards encouraging them to blunder. Germany requires moral support. We will give.it. She wants security for her eastern frontier. We .will promise her tip's security. France desires to see- our helplessness. Wo will show helplessness. England wishes to exploit us. We will gr. e fter full occasion to do so.

■'The first duty of our representatives is to strengthen themselves at their posts. We must make good use of time whilst we have it to prepare our ground. If is not advantageous to us to be feared. We want to he forgotten. The immediate aims for our representatives are therefore to meet recognised officials. to develop trade, to spread propaganda slowly, to enforce our authority and prestige among the proletariat masses.

“The mutual interests of the Western Powers are r>t present so closely interwoven that it is impossible to predict what combinations and what alliances may arise. _1 draw attention of our representatives to the following possible combinations: The Aiiglo-Jananeso rapprochement. may serve as a menace to America the Anglo-German rapprochement as a menace to France: the ItalaGreece rapprochement as a counterpoise to the policies of England and ranee in the Near East; the Franco-Polish -rapprochement as a direct menace to Germany ; the Czecho-’Rumnnian rapprochement as a menace to Hungary, and so on ” *