The Bolsheviks on Thursday week agreed to the demand of
the British and Italian Governments that Poland should not be asked to arm a large militia of " workers," constituting a " Red " or Communist army controlled from Moscow. In making this concession, M. Tchitcherin took the opportunity to indulge in a little propaganda, asserting, for instance, that Bolshevik rule is 4. truly popular " and not, as Mr. Lloyd George said with truth, an oligarchy. He did not explain how a despotism largely, con- trolled by Jews can be representative of Russia, where the Jews
are a very small minority. His assertion that in Russia " the whole nation works for the whole nation's benefit" was ludicrously false, inasmuch as the peasants work for themselves and the remaining tenth of the population are forced to work-for Lenin.
