Russia's course of action with regard to this Chinese Bastern affair 43 at last making it plain, to all wha, wish to see, that the essence of Soviet policy in the Far East is no other in its ultimate aims than the old imperial policy. The insstruments are different, the tech-unique is altered, but the goal mains the same. Each policy is but the natural expression of the mighty economic impulse of the Russian macs toward free access to the open sea, The form of government begins to appear as incidental. Behind whatever government exists for the moment there is the same old Rus forever encroaching on its naig! dours, slowly breaking down all banviers erected against its outward preassure. Soviet policy "appears no longer as. solely a ma testation of Bolshevist propaganda appears in its deeper significance as the expression of Russian national demands. In. their Far Eastarn policy, if nowhere cle, the Soviet authorities have the approval, albeit grudgingly given,.of the exiled groups of Russian politieians. No. further upheaval in Russia is going to bring into power 'a government: that will have any less aggressive policy in the Fat East. Whether the cap he wears be that of Tsarist or Bolshevik, Cadet or Menshevik, the Russian bear is in eastern Asia, determined to bathe his paws once more in the salubrious waters of the Yellow
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