ABSTRACT
Why, then, our tireless anti-Bolshevik Campaign? It is nothing but impudence—a most successful piece of journalistic bluff, to hold up the methods of the Communists for condemnation to the English people as if they were something new in the history of Russia or unusual in the rest of the world either formerly or now. No impious originality can be claimed for their methods of coercion, nor, likewise, for their violently condemned methods of propaganda abroad. However much ahead of their times they may be in their internationalism, as well as in the social objects they deem practicable, for some of their methods the same cannot be said! But why should we expect them to be in advance of their times in these too? The Communist Party have never professed to join the Society of Friends! They still believe in the use of Force—I was going to say about as much as the rest of the world does, but in view of their proposals for Total Disarmament, this would hardly be fair. Their treatment of ‘subject’ nationalities, too, even taking into account the experiences of Georgia, shows on the whole far less reliance upon Force.
