RUSSIA AND COMMON SENSE.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Will you kindly permit me to ask a few questions in connexion with your article under the above heading ?
(1) How can the Soviet be said to represent the Russian' people when it was thrust upon them by a small clique of Jews under the command of Lenin who was in the pay of the German Government ? The Grand Duke Cyril has just issued a protest in which he states that the Soviet "is not recognized by the Russian people." It" controls Russia" by means of an army of upwards of one million men and. with the assistance of a barbarous secret police, the Cheka, whose regular practice is the torture of prisoners. Many; thousands of Russians have been executed in the suppression of their attempts to throw off the detested yoke of the Soviet.
(2) As the Soviet has for many years been making effortsf to raise in this country a revolution similar to that which has been such a curse to Russia, is it not most earnestly to be wished that it could be induced to "ignore us " ?
(3) Is it humane or just on the part of freedom-loving Britain to take any action which would have the effect of riveting more firmly upon the necks of the Russian people this odious despotism ?—I am, Sir, &c., Storrington. F. W. D. MITCHELL.
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