Readers will, we think, agyes with us on the exceptional interest of the articles we have been reprinting by MI. Bessedovaky, the former First Cou seller of the Soviet Embassy in Paris, who fell under the Cheka's suspicion, was ordered back to Moscow and only saved himself by getting over the garden wall, One conjectures, rightly or wrongly, that M. Bessedovaky is one of the old order who, like many others, has tried to serve his country under the new, and has found it hopeless, Probably he will be murdered sooner or later. Meanwhile his revela tions of the inner councils of Moscow are of particular value now when Great Britain, or, it would be juster to say, the 'Labour Government, is renewing. relations with the' Soviet. M-Bessedovsky shows that ths Russian Foreign Department is 'a mere blind, All its memoranda are drawn up by the Political Bureau, and the Foreign Depart-mont's business is merely to put them into diplomatic language. All Foreign policy is directed by the Third Internationale. And at the head of everything is the Dictator Stalin, palpably ignorant of affairs ' abroad, swollen with the vanity of his own omnipotence and not only dear to all argument, but filled with cold fury at the slightest sent. We are told that he instructed Krestinsky, the Soviet Ambassador in Berlin, "to torpedo". Herr—Stresemann's Locarno policy and the Young Plan. Krestinsky pointed out that this would seriously compromise the Soviets relations with Germany. His only result was to earn Stalin's implacable hatred.
It is M, Bessedovsky's recollect tions of his service in Tokyo in 1926 which have most importance for British readers. Kopp, the ambassador, told him, on his arrival, that their business was "to stir up the revolution in China, making it more and more radical in nature, so that finally everything which is English will be driven out of the country, thus we shall succeed in establishing a direct menace India." Kopp was pessimistic and poured scorn on Stalin's pet project of - Sovietizing China. "After the Ambassador -had left 'Tokyo, M. Bessedovsky found a letter to him from Stalin, telling him that in China Karakhan was only carrying out the Political Bureau's instructions, and wars ing, him (Kopp) of the consequences of obstructing - him-"The 'Sovietization' of the -Chi nese revolution took its course," and M. Bessedovsky. contin nes: Tharics to this ''Sovietization, 'A Nationalist soldier in.
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