"And so we find ourselves supporting one form of dictatorship which we dislike against another which we now hate with all our being. It may be of some interest to give a brief background to the curious situation."
Mr. Woodhead then spoke of the inauguration of the Bolshevik regime in Russia and the part Germany had played in it Claiming that the Bolshevik system was and is repugnant to all real democracies, the speaker nevertheless: stressed the fact that from 1920 to 1939. the Soviets entered into alliances and other commitments designed to check aggression, the only thing in its favour.
The exclusion of Soviet representatives at the meeting in Munich—an affront that Stalin was not likely to forget and which in 1939 rendered ald attempts to conclude an Anglo-Franco-Russian defensive alliance a failure—was also recalled by the speaker since, he said, the Soviet dictator took the view that Britain and France were endeavouring to embroil him with the Reich, while dodging their own commitments.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.