pears more certain than that Moscow changes only its professions and not its heart, and that any beliefs to the contrary are the self-delusions of fatuity. It is still the same Power which has advertised that its policy is to get recognition at all costs with the sole view of facilitating a relentless definitive war upon capitalism. It is the same Power whose agents were endeavouring to stir up trouble against Great Britain in Central Asia and on the borders of India, almost before the ink was dry on the Anglo-Russian trade agreement, in which the Soviet had solemnly abjured propaganda against Britain. To attempt to have dealings with men of this kind is as useless as to try to negotiate with people whose language one cannot talk. For the language and spirit of Bolshevism are as alien to us as ours to them; and any attempt on our part to meet them merely excites their contempt for the greed by which they consider such overtures are inspired. Even now Moscow! roust be chuckling at the success her envoys have achieved at Genoa, for though they have not won de jure recognition it is to be feared that they have managed to throw another very poisonous apple of discord into the enemies' camp. That she regards the rest of the world as enemies on whom every means of making war is lawful for her, is the cardinal fact to bear in mind. The short and mercifully broken history of Bolshevism on the Rand is but one of many events that prove it.
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