The Dividing Line of EuropeLondon edition (Macmillan and co., limited) has title: Russia in division. |
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Page 268 - Russia in the keeping of private and irresponsible bodies, the Soviet Government ought not to make agreements which it knows it cannot carry out. (6) I should be obliged if you would be good enough to let me have the observations of your Government on this subject without delay. I have the...
Page 267 - Government means that these undertakings shall be carried out, both in the letter and in the spirit, and it cannot accept the contention that whilst the Soviet Government undertakes obligations a political body, as powerful as itself, is to be allowed to conduct a propaganda and support it with money which is in direct violation of the official agreement.
Page 267 - The Soviet Government undertakes not to support with funds or in any other form persons or bodies or agencies or institutions whose aim is to spread discontent or to foment rebellion in any part of the British Empire . . . and to impress upon its officers and officials the full and continuous observance of these conditions.
Page 267 - Government undertakes obligations a political body, as powerful as itself, is to be allowed to conduct a propaganda and support it with money which is in direct violation of the official agreement. The Soviet Government either has or has not the power to make such agreements. If it has the power it is its duty to carry them out and see that the other parties are not deceived. If it has not this power, and if responsibilities which belong to the State in other countries are in Russia in the keeping...
Page 265 - Go attentively through the lists of the military ' cells ', detailing from them the more energetic and capable men, turn attention to the more talented military specialists, who have, for one reason or another, left the Service and hold Socialist views. Attract them into the ranks of the Communist Party if they desire honestly to serve the proletariat, and desire in the future to direct not the blind mechanical forces in the service of the bourgeoisie, but a national army. Form a directing operative...
Page 267 - International will doubt its intimate connection and contact with the Soviet Government. No Government will ever tolerate an arrangement with a foreign Government by which the latter is in formal diplomatic relations of a correct kind with it, whilst at the same time a propagandist body organically connected with that foreign Government encourages and even orders subjects of the former to plot and plan revolutions for its overthrow. Such conduct is not only a grave departure from the rules of international...
Page 267 - Empire . . . and to impress upon its officers and officials the full and continuous observance of these conditions. (5) Moreover, in the Treaty which His Majesty's Government recently concluded with your Government still further provision was made for the faithful execution of an analogous undertaking which is essential to the existence of good and friendly relations between the two countries. His Majesty's Government mean that these undertakings shall be carried out both in the letter and in the...
Page 134 - ... abundance of ammunition. The border region of Russia is called the Kresi, and is some hundreds of miles long. Ethnographically it belongs to Russia, historically possibly to Poland. The greater landowners are Polish, the lesser Russian. The Jews, of whom there are a large number, divide their sympathies. The administration of the country is entirely in Polish hands and is admittedly defective. The Poles themselves are beginning to...
Page 139 - I met a young fellow in the Pinsk district who reckoned his income, when all taxes were paid, to have been two kilograms of bread a day. That was two years ago. This year, owing to failure of crops, it was half a kilogram a day.
Page 135 - Luckily the Bolshevist attacks are regarded with apathy. There is not much fear, not much excitement. Hell would be let loose if there were war in the Kresi, but peasant imagination does not see so far. I was able to make a tour of the whole region. The impression which remains is extremely vivid. There is poverty, discontent, and exasperation everywhere. The Russians are passive, not rebellious. That is not their virtue but their fault. They go under. The most reliable and best educated of the three...