Since then the accusations of the Soviet have extended so
as to include most European countries. Great Britain, it seems, shares responsibility for the murder., People - here who enjoyed their Whitsuntide holidays without a thought of Poland or Moscow or the .demented boy at Warsaw will wonder more than ever in what sense words are used by the Bolshevists. In this affair there is incidentally a first-rate illustration of those -differences between racial habits of thought which place all inter- national dealings from the start under a- heavy handicap of misunderstanding because language has everywhere a different value.. The Soviet protests about the Warsa- w murder are, of course, an extreme and even a veiy grotesque example of what we mean. Yet it may be presumed that the Soviet authorities do seriously think-it worth while to say, for instance, that the murder is an "unprecedented Crime." To us it is almost incredible that such words should be used by men who sanctioned the massacre of the Emperor and his family and the putting to death of many hundreds of thousands of men and women for raising their voices against Communism. Words like these obviously and instantly recoil on those who use them, And still the words go on !
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