Show PROBLEMS FACING STRICKEN WORLD shall chaos or reconstruction in europe follow the great world war ERROR IN MEETING MENACE i at allied 1 1 governments can not be said tv to have combated the bolshevik t movement in a wise or 1 1 prudent manner i article artic le by FRANK FRAN COMER COMERFORD FOnD two things have tended to spread and deepen the unrest of 0 the lie world mime luce the signing of 0 tile arini stice the attitude of the allies toward the soviet government and the attitude of the tha conservative press anti and tile the employers of the world toward the working class president wilson summed bummed the situation up in a statement made in the office of M bichon at the dorany doran DOr y hilris on january 10 1010 1919 the conference was culled called for a pro pre Il discussion regarding the situation in russia Illis sla the notes of the conversations conver conversa tons of the conference participated in by sir mr lloyd Cl george eorge mr Ilal four mr and baron son cinto give the substance tance of the presidents position lu in the following words ile he tile the president did not believe ahat there would be sympathy anywhere with the brutal aspect of bol if it were not for the fact of the domination of large vested interests in the tha political and economic world while it might be true that tills this evil was in process of discussion and slow reform it must ile be admitted that the general body of nien men has grown groan impatient at the failure to bring about the necessary reform ile ho stated that there ware were many men who 0 represented large vested interests in the united states who saw the necessity for these reforms rand desired desire 1 I something which should be worked out at the pence peace conference namely the establishment of some machinery to provide for the opportunity of individuals divi duals greater than the world has ever known capital and labor in the united states are not friends still they are not enemies in the sense that they are thinking of resorting to physical force to settle their differences but they are distrustful each of tile the other society cannot go on on that plane on the one hand there Is a minority possessing capital and brains on the other a majority consisting of the great bodies of 0 workers who are essential to the minority but do not trust the minority and feel that the minority will never rend render or them their rights A way must bo be found to put trust and co operation cooperation between these two president wilson pointed out that the whole world was disturbed by this question before the bolsheviks came into pow power ci seeds need soil and tho the bolshevik seeds found the sol soil already prepared for them unrest and its causes there was unrest before the war it was duo due to the fact that the few had wore inore than they could use while the many had bad less than they needed the complaint against conditions was taking form unrest was tending lending toward action there was a class consciousness ness it was more than unfriendliness it was growing into positive hate the war depression crystallized zed it and the war shock from holcli which tho the world suffered quickened the en eagerness gerness for action the desire for a change was more inore jian agitation it had grown into determination and resolution once tile people had doubts about nebout theli their ability to got get free decent lives through political action after the war suspicion of the working class that the powerful interests would ind and could defeat them on tile the political field became positive conviction the great mass of boilers ollera of the world coming out of tile lie war in this frame of mind looked with sympathy upon tipon the russian experiment with bolshevism it was tho the kind of sympathy one lias fins for the underdog under dog in a fight and russia hussla had been an under dog in the struggle for life and liberty through all the ages definite policy lacking unfortunately for tho the world today tile the allied governments of tho the world have been without a definite policy toward the soviet government in russia Ilus sla their attitude lias has been one of uncertainty 1 a purposeless antagonism of f bolshevism from the beginning the allies have opposed the soviet program and ancl the bolshevik methods but their opposition has taken no constructive tive form it ling has led to nothing it has amounted to a disorderly scheme of interference a general plon iliin of annoyance at first the people of tile tho world were told that the allies would intervene and save pave tile the russians from the rule of violence lm im posed hy by the red I 1 army under the command of Lenine and tho the allies did not intervene it well that they did not but they did what wag worse they intermeddled intermeddler Inter meddled worst of all the allied I 1 government failed to keep the public fully freely and frankly advised as to what the bolshevik plan was and the methods being used to govern the great Itus people the world in its ita ignorance orance ot 0 the real plan the mean ing and purpose of the bolshevik government ern ment not knowing that it was a government of it small minority rule that it was built on force that tho rule of might pre prevailed that vl violence olence was the law that a dictator was wan tho the prophet turned to the thought that the soviet government was tile the beginning of the new order for or which they themselves had bad been looking and working they suspected that the allied governments were doing the bidding of tile the capitalist class which th they y know knew had find fur far too important a voice in government affairs and worn were trying to hinder and obstruct the soviet government trying to prevent ito lt succeeding in the fear that its success would bring the new order to the rest of the world and destroy the special privilege class tills this thought gave them an interest in ill tile the success of the alie bolshevik experiment a sympathy for soviet success pretended saviors arose in russin russia DenI kIne Not kolchuk Kolch chak and yu denich these men were heralded to the world as patriots leaders seeking to deliver the russians from tile the yoke of violence and autocracy fastened on the people by kentne and the allied governments did not officially favor these counterrevolution counter revolution ary movements in Ilu Ilus sata sla but rumors were allowed 0 to o go unchallenged suggesting that the allied governments were furnishing arms and money to these uprisings in russia not having openly intervened the russian problem belonged to the ho russian people the phrase self determination had been driven into the minds of tile the world here was a violation of the fundamental meaning of national freedom world liberty the allies gave their open sympathy at least when it was printed they did not officially deny it to every apri uprising it I 1 g I 1 in n russia regardless of the alie character of the leader and the purposes of the lie movement then came stories that some borne of those these white hopes were brigands brigande bri gands adventurers reactionaries tile the people reasoned that the only ground for unofficial cial interference expressed pressed in favoring these revolutionists with tile moral support of tho the allies was that they were against tile the bolsheviks being against the bolsheviks did not amount to a good and sufficient lelent reason in the minds of tho the people it must be remembered that tile general public looked upon bol as the new order and its iti enemies as the social tera of the world kolchak called reactionary gradually the public was enlightened enedey by the press and admiral kolchak was pictured as a reactionary it was pointed out that he was surrounded and supported by the favorites of the old regime that ills his plan was to establish reestablish re the rule of tile the nobility later reports showed that his fits leaders leader were the cossack generals general Nal and Rozo Ro tile the world knew something about these cossack generals they were said eald to have been part of the alie czars azars paid terrorists now that the zar was dead and they were no longer on his is pay roll they had lie become corne lawless vier ner ce narles cen arlea and had seized upon the movement of counterrevolution counter revolution in siberia to loot and pillage the people from the best information I 1 have been able to cef get coming from american soldiers sold lera part of ou our expeditionary forces in siberia I 1 have earned that while the russians in ili siberia aro ar opposed to bolshevik violence and soviet rule they are more oppose opposed to tile the coming into power of a govern government headed by these hated cossack generals I 1 the british government openly recognized and aided Kolchak privately and secretly lloyd oeone admitted vint that lC was a reactionary on oil january 10 1019 nt at a conference of the lie allied lenders leaders in paris the official minutes minute of the conversations held report lloyd deorge ns as having said bald moreover from received it ifould appear that katchak had biad been collecting members of the lie old regime around hlin film and would seem to bo be nt at heart a monarchist it appeared that the lie czecho were finding tills out olit the 9 of the czecho slovaks are very democratic and they are not nt at nil all prepared to fight for the restoration of the old conditions in russia it was the duty of the allied governments to keep the people informed conc concerning aning affairs in fit russia theoress the press of tile the world la Is human and patriotic anti would have responded to all reasonable requests made to give ghe the truth to the people the intelligence departments of he various allied governments had in their possession tile the truth they allowed it to spoil while misleading disappointing reports were allowed to circulate unchallenged it was wan the duty of the lie allied governments to give tho the people tile the true story of tile the bolshevik program and the methods used by the when wo we needed money for bonds we faed the public school abool houses and tho the press to get tile need to the public ond nod the ha people re responded pond with tills this red terror facing the world schools pulpits and the press should have been called upon not tor for propaganda purposes not to call the bolsheviks names but to tell the people exactly what bolshevism meant the sanity of the people of the democratic allied coun countries could have been trusted tile the polley policy or absence 0 policy of the allied countries seem to have overlooked the irritated state of mind of the world woric the he mood ot 0 tho the people As aa president wilson put it seeds need sol set and atlie athe needs found the soil moll already prepared for them news ater |