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Show DISCOSS SPREAD OF BOLSHEVISM Effect, of Menace on Work of Peace Congress Is Considered. By Universal Service. WASHINGTON, Nov. 17. The spread of Bolshevism in Europe Is discussed very earnestly in Washington, especially with reference to the work of the coming peace congress. Marked distinctions are made by officials as to "groups" in various vari-ous countries as compared with the Bolshevism Bol-shevism of Russia. There has been reference to Bolshevist local agitation In Germany, Holland, Sweden, Spain, and Switzerland. In these countries, it Is contended, none but the lowest intellectual groups stand for anarchy, an-archy, nihilism, sabotage and other like crimes. In Russia, it is said, the Bolshevist Bol-shevist party, first started out as a popular party of the "majority," has degenerated de-generated into a dominant group which stands for murder and execution as the best means of curing government ills. As to Germany, it is helieved, the socialists, so-cialists, not Including the most radical of the independent socialists, have the Intention of creating a government which will be absolutely antijunker, but will attract at-tract to itself the average workingman who knows the general good means his own good. The German parties, for the present at least, have before them as a fixed fact that the peace congress will deal only with a government 'having a prima faclo chance of utability. This Idea, it is believed by officials here, permeates Bavaria, the next greatest component of the empire to the old kingdom king-dom of Prussia, and that these two former kingdoms will be able to present by the time the congress meets, not only the substance, but the form, of a social or democratic government which shall have subordinated the red flag element. If that -be not done lt seems certain that the allied armies will go to Berlin and set up a military government which would last until a stable government govern-ment had been set up by the "representative "repre-sentative German people." So far, observers here do not regard this as a possibility. Their view Is that a "working "work-ing man" of Germany will be the solution solu-tion of the trouble because he is neither a nihilist nor an -anarchist. |