Show Russ Russ' Self Rule Propose For Slav p Peoples s MOSCOW Aug 12 AP Soviet AP-Soviet Soviet Russia in an effort to unite all Slavs Slays against Germany has come forward with a broad proposal of self-rule self by Slavonic peoples scattered over the face of Europe and part of Asia o The Kremlins Kremlin's program which I contrasts sharply with the ancient ancient an an- dent doctrine of Pan slav ism whereby Slavs Slays would have a large measure of political solidarity was advanced af at a current Moscow Moscow Moscow Mos Mos- cow meeting of representatives of various Slav states The hour has struck when the whole whale Slav world must unite for forthe forthe forthe the ear earliest est and final destruction of German said a soviet statement addressed to all Slavs Slays Unite as Equals We are uniting like equals with equals We We have a common purpose and a common goal goal goal- smashing Hitler's armies and the destruction of Hitlerism In advancing the soviet program program program pro pro- gram it said howeY l We have havea a common passionate and embracing all-embracing aspiration aspiration- that Slav as well as other peoples peoples peo peo- ples pies could peacefully and freely develop within their state We res resolutely and firmly re reject reject reject re- re the very idea of as a thoroughly reactionary trend profoundly hostile to the lofty purpose of the equality of peoples peoples peo peo- ples pies and national development of all states which was utilized by Russian czarism for its imperialistic imperial imperial- aims The soviet policy was enunciated enunciated elated at the Moscow meeting by Alexei Tolstoi author and grandson grand grand- son of Novelist Count Leo Tol Tol- stol He spoke as r representative of Russia to Russians Ukrainians white Russi Russians ns Poles Czechs I Slovaks Serbs Croats Slovenes Bulgarians Macedonians Car Car- and Montenegrins r Policy Abandoned with which the czars toyed and about which they did little went out of the window when the bolsheviks seized power in Russia This doctrine that all Slavonic peoples should have as large a measure as possible of political al solidarity came to the f fore re prominently prominently prominently in inthe the seventeenth century as as' as the result of the work of a Croal Catholic priest Jurij Kir- Kir Slav political unity had been broken broken- thousands of years earlier by the Magyar invasion of the plains in the ninth cen- cen turn This introduced a wedge of Asiatic origin between east cast west and south Slavs Slays which bas thas lasted to this day Russian czars from Peter the Great on down to Anne Catherine Catherine Catherine Cath Cath- erine II and Alexander I always h had d the ideal of in view as an instrument of political political political cal expansion but in their diplomatic diplomatic diplomatic diplo diplo- matic relations with Turkey Austria Austria Austria Aus Aus- tria and Prussia there often were compromises which seriously re restricted restricted re- re its realization |