Will We Eat Them?

Professor Rhodes of C.U.C gave some telling facts with regard to American bases surrounding the USSR, and the absence of any overseas Soviet bases.

That is an important part of the story, but it is only part. For the rest, I can recommend no better source than the thesis of American scholars Michael Sayers and Albert E. Kahn, "The Great Conspiracy."

First published in February, 1946, and reaching four editions by June, 1947, this book describes in easily digestible form why the Soviet Union fears the "West," but why she can herself have nothing to gain by waging war. In case you did not know, the governments of Britain, France, Germany and the United States spent the 24 years from 1917 to 1941 attempting by open armed hostility and by sabotage and slander, to overthrow the Bolshevik Government, because the very existence of a government seriously pledged to the institution of socialism was a potential threat to the interests of all the privateers of the globe.

Black Record

The tale reads like a detective yarn. How many of us knew of the career of the British spy Captain S. G. Reilly, and his record of underground activities against the Soviet power? How many of us knew that the master writer Maxim Gorki was done to death by the agents of Nazism? Or that a Fascist hireling. Yagoda, had risen to the rank of Chief of Police in Soviet Russia?

No book describes so exactly in its historical perspective the tie-up between all the anti-Soviet forces of the world—the German Nazis, the American big business interests, the so-called "Trotskyists," and individual malignants like Jan Valtin, Charles E. Lindbergh, William C. Bullitt and their kind.

The Russian people have had a hard time trying to have their form of government recognised by the outside world.

The first signs of recognition came in the form of armies of intervention from England, France, Germany, Japan and America, supporting the Czarist nobles Wrangel. Yudenich, Kolchak and Denikin. But the tough resistance of the Russian people, and the indignation of the rank and file of the very invading armies, soon forced their withdrawal.

From then on, the chief tactic of the criminal west was the building up of a strong Germany and a strong Japan to "contain" Bolshevism. We all know what that policy led to.

Do you wonder that the Russians are suspicious of the diplomacy of the US and Britain—especially when they see the new building up of Germany and Japan, the military loans under the openly military and anti-Soviet Atlantic Pact?

Sayers and Kahn began their chronicle of events with Colonel Raymond Robins of the American Red Cross setting off on his secret intelligence task of "keeping Russia in the war" in 1917. They close with an interview with the same man thirty years later. This is what he says:

They Want Peace

"Soviet Russia has always wanted peace. Lenin knew that his great domestic programme would be deflected if not destroyed by war. The Russian people have always wanted peace. Education, production, exploitation of a vast and rich territory engage all their thoughts and energies and hopes. The greatest Minister of Foreign Affairs in our generation. Commissar Maxim Litvinov, worked ably and steadily for collective security until the Anglo-French appeasement policies towards Mussolini and Hitler made collective security impossible.

"Soviet Russia exploits no colonies, seeks to exploit none. Soviet Russia operates no foreign trade cartels, seeks none to operate. Stalin's policies have wiped out racial, religious, national and class antagonisms within the Soviet territories. This unity and harmony of the Soviet peoples point the path to international peace."

Read this book, and see if you still think the Reds are going to eat you.