Mr. Churchill, addressing his Dundee constituents last Saturday, expressed his
regret that the Allies had not been able to do more for the anti-Bolshevik Russians. He declared that the Allies would " learn to rue the fact that they could not take more decided and more united action to crush the Bolshevik peril at its heart and centre before it had grown too strong." It is possible, by assuming that he spoke only of the past. to reconcile Mr. Churchill's views on Russia with those of the Prime Minister, but in spirit they are so fundamentally opposed that if resignation had been in fashion nowadays Mr. Churchill would have found it difficult to remain in a Cabinet which refused further aid to the Russian Volunteers, Mr. Churchill said that we must treat the present German Government fairly, lest they should be overthrown by reactionaries or Spartacists, either of whom would gladly ally themselves with the Bolsheviks. He contended that Mr. Asquith's Paisley programme was virtually identical with that of the Coalition, and that there was no political future for the Independent Liberals. The real Opposition was that of the Labour or Socialist Party, who, he repeated, were unfit to govern because they thought mainly of class interests and could not agree on a policy.
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