This suggests the possibility that British troops are required elsewhere.
Rumour is extremely busy. It is reported in many quarters that 200,000 men are to be sent to the Caucasus. Of course if the Bolsheviks arc really on the point of attacking Poland and the new Caucasian Republics, they must be resisted. If they are allowed to upset the whole scheme of reconstruction agreed upon by the Allies, the fat will indeed be in the fire. In that case there would be a new power in the world whose writ would run further than that of the League of Nations. But the whole situation is extremely obscUre, and we are not inclined to be alarmed by rumour. One thing is clear. If the Bolsheviks seriously mean to challenge the Allies outside Russia, the duty of resistance should fall upon all the Allies, and not only upon Great Britain, or even upon Great Britain principally.
