OTHER PAPERS’ OPINIONS.

Thames Star, Volume LIX, Issue 16787, 14 May 1926, Page 4

OTHER PAPERS’ OPINIONS.

TAKING POISON FROM ABROAD. As might have been expected, the general strike in Great Britain has been hailed with intense satisfaction by the Russian Bolshevists. The notorious Zinovieff, in particular, is rejoicing over what he calls “great events in England.’’ No doubt he sees in these events gratifying results of the propagandist activities the Soviet has been tireless in promoting and extending. This propaganda is definitely responsible for the creation in Britain of small but militant groups committed to Communist aims, or, in other words, ready and eager to take any. and every means that offers of fomenting revolution and wrecking the existing order of society. The Communist Party and its related organisations in Britain represent a very small minority in the Labour movement of that country, but the Moscow-inspired revolutionaries aim at exercising an influence out of all proportion to their numbers. In these conditions that obtain for the moment in Britain, there is full proof that these methods have not wholly failed. It need not be doubted that the spirit of law and liberty will assert itself in the British population even in the throes of a generpl strike, and that the measure of success, gained for the moment by Communist revolutionaries is the prelude to their defeat. Before that point is reached, however, there is likely to be a saddening objectlesson in the folly of allowing almost unhampered scone to the purveyors of a poisonous foreign propaganda which is absolutely alien to the spirit of the British people, and lias no bearing on their problems. —Dominion, Wellington.