19 DECEMBER 1925, Page 2

Yet all the time Moscow pours out her plans for

destroy- ing the present structure of society in other nations and proves that this is not mere talk by creating " cells " to spread disturbance and perversion in the Services and the Trade Unions of other countries. In this speaking with two voices there is a curious parallelism to the way in which Russia was managed under the Tsars. The agents of that unto-Ordinated Empire aeted much .as they pleased all over the•-world ; when their independent political coups were successful they received praise and support, but failures were disowned. The change from personal autocracy to Communist dictatorship seems to have brought little enough change Of methcA The real explanation, we suppose, lies in the Slav mind. *