Moreover, France with its obligations to assist Poland and numania
in case of attack has always insisted that Russia should set a good example before the great Powers can be expected to disarm ; while Great Britain naturally regards Russia askance after its experience of what Russian propaganda can do in the Far East. So the Bolshevik shadow has hung heavily over the work of the Preparatory Disarmament Com- mission ; and for those who don't want to disarm in any cir- cumstances it has afforded an excellent excuse for not doing so. Of course, if the Bolsheviks are coming to Geneva to talk about the necessity of uprooting the social system of the rest of Europe, they will only succeed in making us all see red. But having tried this game at the Economic Conference, when they slapped the capitalists in the face with one hand, while they asked for their money with the other, they may possibly have discovered that it does not pay.
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