Is it not very much the same thing with Russia
? The decisive question, as it seems to us, is whether we should make the Bo/. sheviks stronger by dealing with them. Personally, we think we should not. Communism in Russia has shot its shaft, and people are laughing and saying what a bad shot it was. As for the tearing propaganda of revolution and terror, we fancy that the frigid fanatical Russian who seriously believes in that sort of thing will find it not easier but more difficult to maintain when he leaves his philosophic cloister and comes into contact with the world of men living under long-established conditions the great merit of which is that they " work." We are not in the least arguing for offering the Russians an approving comrade. ship. But we can do business with a man even if we do not want to ask him to dinner.
