The Archive · 1927

RED ANNIVERSARY

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Naturally the anniversary of ithe revolution in Russia has been heralded by the Bolshev' Jas an occasion on which their achievements dura ten years. allowed our traveller any funds for road expenses; nothing but his bare ricsha fare without even a cumshaw to give the coolie at the end of his 10,000 miles run. He has to pay two riesha coolies £100 each and his own. and their road expenses for a period of more than two years; he will be lucky if he gets off with a "clear £300 for the cost of his personally conducted tour. This is reckoning travelling expenses at the very moderate cost, of native inns in the territory through which would pass; an economy that is more than offset by the discomfort imposed on their patrons.

Dr, Hu Shih, the well known Chinese scholar, addressed the Unfon Club in Shanghai some time ago and contrasted the civilization of his native land with, that of the West from which he had recently returned. lof the victory of Marxism over! Reformism, of Leninism over Social democracy, of the Third International over the Second and while all of this is very important, the world is much more concerned with the ruin' ceeded in inf so people. Fine differences such as that which the split between the Second and -Third Into nationals—though subsequently broadening to a real difference in spirit—need not concern us at this juncture, but we should rather desire to know whether those in command in Moscow today show any particular: satisfaction with their exploits.

Do they consider that Leninism has made real progress in the world, that it has brougtit into] its fold numbers which~ justify:

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