The papers of Thursday announced that a large force of
Bolshevists invaded Persia on Tuesday, landing from thirteen Bolshevist ships near Enzeli, on the south shore of the Caspian Sea. The invading Bolsheviks are believed to be detachments from Baku where the Bolshevik army is said to be about 40,000 strong. It must not be supposed that this invasion is part of a new Bolshevist policy. The Bolsheviks have had agents and soldiers in Persia for a long time. General Minster- ville, who commanded the " Dunster Force " at Baku, has told us in his book that most of the people he met at Enzeli were Bolsheviks. Probably the British Labour extremists will condone this act of war because it has been committed by the Bolsheviks and because the British garrison had to fall back before the invaders. It matters not at all that the Persians want to be free and that their best chance of freedom is the British guarantee. "But libbaty's a kind o' thing.thet don't agree with niggers "; and the latest version of Lowell's words is that liberty is not liberty unless it is liberty to be a Jacobin.
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