Aug. 26, The decline of Soviet prestige in this country and the departure of very prominent and conspicnous men like Borodin are being! taken abroad as evidences that Soviet Russia has thrown up her hands and is abandoning all effort in this country as useless This impression is, to some degree, a reflection of local opin-fon, and local opinion here is fostered by a delight in false security and false values. It Seems very hard to get it into the public mind that Moscow's fundamental purpose in this country has come very near achievement, and that the spec-Htacular failures registered have been in the attainment of incidental ends. When Lenin turned his face away from Europe in disappointment after two years' waiting for the "world revolution" and looked to the East, a definite policy was shaped to' a definite end, and that policy has never changed and is by no means a failure, It contemplated encouraging and fostering any and every force in the Far East which might lead to disorder, to'such confusion that the! Occidental investment" in the Bast would be undermined, trade interrupted and healthy commer-dal velations rendered impossible. There was no idea of selecting movements in harmony with theoretical Communism; the one essential idea was to find the seeds of confusion, ferutilize and water them, and extend the field in which they could take root. The one important and in sight was the promotion of as much economic discomfort, unemployment and dissatisfaction in the Occident as the complete ruin of Oriental trade could possibly promote. In short, the East was to be ruined by whatever means the Soviet's ingenious and—unscrupulous agents could invent so that the Occident might be a little more receptive of Communist propa-wand:
Everything else that Soviet Russia has undertaken in China, for example, has been incidental this all important scheme. The revival of Russian imperialism, manifesting itself in Mongolia and Manchuria and developing into the "new Manchuria" designs upon northwestern Chin: may be attractive to many minds and important to many Soviet agents, but its success or failure are to be gauged much more according' to the influence that it has upon the promotion of chaos in the trading centres than by, the value of the territory that is brought under Moscow's control The promotion of Communism in China is in itself an afterthought, an achievement flattering and pleasing to Moscow, but a superficial achievement after all. A much greater achievement than the control of the "Nationalist" movement through' a Communist nucleus within it, was the division of the full force of "Nationalism" into a highly! destructive anti-foreign flood] which has swept over half China with precisely the effects upon foreign trade and the industries
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