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Show I RED DIPLOMACY Ail dispaiches from Europe indicate that the Russian Red government is just as Lu:-y no'..- trying to stir up discord in the j family of nations as it was in the d ys when it was giving its acUri- j ties a great deal more publicity. Much of the credit or discredit for the postponement of the preiimi-cary arms conference at Geneva is given to Russia and in this particular instance the Soviet government govern-ment is said to be' pitting its v. i: ; against the League of iNations in i.n effort to gain diplomatic crodh in V estern Lurope. In the first place Moscow knevs that Finland, the Baltic states. . f'oand and Rumania will not Egtee to do any unarming unie.f.2 Russia agrees to disarm. To do so would be preparing for suicide. Russia therefore must be in the conference, if it is to be a success so far as the nations of Castern Eur or-:; ar-e concerned. ' j But the Soviet government d chares that it will rot entsr the conference unless it is held in some country other than Switzerland The excuse for this is, of course, the assassination of a Red efficia, .t the Luzanne conference. The '.estern powers are therefore up against the two horns of the dilemma. If they fail to move the ' conference from Switzerland, Rusria will not attend and the con-' ference will be a failure, because Poland and other countries will! -efuse to disarm. If the conference is moved from Switzerland- to oiacate Russia the Soviet government will have won a real displo-; rnatic victory, and will have put one over on the League of Nations, j The chances for a real disarmament conference are therefore I -ot very bright, and this is exact!; what Red Russia wants. j But while this diplomatic maneuvering is going on in the west 'here is plenty doing in the east too. The dispute over the Chinese Eastern railroad is showing that the Reds have as far reaching plans -or Russian expansion in the Eart as the Czar had. Their object, of course is different. imperial Russia was looking for increased trade and profit, while Red Russia is seeking to exploit the Orient :n an effort to overthrow finally the governments of the western -rations. It is all a part of the communistic scheme against capitalistic capital-istic government in general. The Reds received a setback in the west when the governments of Czecho-SIovakia, Jugo-Slavia and Rumania decided not to recognize recog-nize the Soviet government for the present at least. But in the Orient '.hey may be more successful. |