THE WORLD AT THE CROSS ROADS "Russian party strife" -thus reads one of the concluding paragraphs of the report "has been marked by extreme violence. The present leaders are men who have suffered every kind of oppression and have been accustomed for years to take their lives in their hands."
These men and women who were called upon judgment on the Soviet experi-
to render their
ment, without knowledge of Russia's past, without understanding the Russian language, with a lack of state experience, apparently in former times Russia was a wealthy that forgot country, that with her food she fed three-fourths sorrowful
of entire Europe, England included, and consequently, that it was madness to attempt the annihilation of her entire economic structure.
Labor's favorable attitude towards Bolshevism
more apparent when we turn to the problem of combating Bolshevism. Here is the instance of Hungary. After the overthrow of Bela Cohen, there was no more pressing task before the new Hungarian Government becomes
still
than to undertake immediately a general cleaning of the Hungarian household in order to sweep up all the dirt and corruption brought about by the
Communist
plished,
rule.
there would
Unless that was accom-
always have been danger (
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