and EXTRA MILE-it. Marc T. Greene has started quite an active hare by his letter over the recent meeting of a number of White Russians in ihe Astor House which decided to establish anti-Komintern contacts with political organs in Japan, Germany and Italy for the purpose of presenting a common front against Communism. His reputation as a writer makes it quite certain that he is well able to look after himself, despite the spate of letters his original communication has cálled forth, but he need not be surprised if there is quite a deal of difference from the views which he has expressed not only amongst the White Russian community but also in other quarters. In the first place the number attending the meeting at the Astor House, which is in the occupation of the Japanese, and affords colour for the suggestion that the whole proceedings were under their auspices, represents but a small fraction of the White Russians in Shanghai, and most certainly is not to be taken as in any way representative of the whole White Russian community at this present juncture. But even if they were it is not easy to see that in arriving at the decision they are reported to have done, they have committed any particularly heinous offence. Rather they appear to have re-emphasized their own political creed, and in doing what they have done have demonstrated their perfectly comprehensible enmity to the system which deprives them of their country and their rights of nationality. These people who have made the decision which Mr. Greene criti-sizes so roundly are those, who, for the most part, fled from Russia either because of the horrors of the terror, or because they could not subscribe to the political doctrines of those who became masters of the country. They resent the existence of a system brought into being in circumstances of bestial cruelty such as has shocked the world for years, and in their eyes there can be no compounding with that particular devil, the spirit of Communism. Between the White Russian and Comnfunism it must always be war AGE at no extra
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