Mr. Churchill's Straight Talk to British Labour Mr. Winston Churchill, Secretary of State for War, had an article jo the London "Evening News' which is @ brilliantly incisive comment on what Bolshevism has done for Russia. The recent _letter which Lenin sent to British Labour through Messrs. Ben Turner and Tom Shaw, ¥.2., has called forth! the article. Mr.' Churchill, in the course of his article, says:—When the monster lifts his veil, descends from his throne of skulls, and starts writing political squibs to British working men, we get) something about which any intelligent elector, man or woman, can form his own opinion.
In Mr. Churchill's view this letter is intended to start the British nation off on the same career violence that has made Russia "such a jolly place to live in," and he says there is little wonder that Mr. Shaw should think Lenin "dneredibly misinformed.' After) pointing out that Lenin attacks! nearly all classes of Britons, Mr. Churchill says:
The whole of the Conservative Party, with its millions of voters, are of course beyond the pale.
Liberalism, with its ardent votaries in every street and village, with its deep love of peace and tolerance, "live and let live," with its broad humanities, is swept aside as mere bourgeoise and shopkeeper prejudice and ignorance.
All these are to be condemned. All these are "to share the fate of Kerensky, the Mensheviks and Social Revolutionaries in Russia." With the ground thus cleared, the' great law-giver, the apostle of progress, is able to devote himself to the British Labour Party, to the Trade Union leaders, to miserable reactionaries like Mr. Snowden, Mr. Cramp, and Mr. Smillie, to the absolute traitors to their own class like Mr. Henderson and Mr. Clynes.
It is for these that the deepest scorn and fiercest censures are reserved. We are left in little doubt as to what would happen to these men if Lenin's view of Britain were not "incredibly informed," and if the Lenin me could be established upon the ruins of the British Commonwealth.
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