" RUSSIA " AT GENOA.
(To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") Sra,—Will you permit me to make one criticism on your valuable and important article " Fact and Fiction at Genoa "? I find in it such phrases as " The Russian answer," " The Russians, however, add a suggestion," " The Russians might go on till kingdom come,' " &c. These expressions are in. accordance with the intolerable convention which assumes that a junta of self-appointed dictators, ruling by military force, can represent the Russian people.
The Big Six of the Soviet delegation, of whom Chicherin was the principal spokesman but not the principal influence, consisted of one Russian, three Jews, one Bulgarian, and one henchman of a German Jew capitalist. It is interesting to note that three of these delegates, Chicherin and his two Jews, Finkelstein and Rosenfeld, were turned out of England by our tolerant Government forattempts—not wholly unsuccessful—. to promote a Communist revolution. Of the fifteen experts, eleven were Jews, which was probably inevitable, as Russian experts have been largely exterminated. Of the sixty-seven promiscuous attendants, the majority were Jews.
Now, if our delegation had been composed of members of the British Communist patties, we should have a parallel to the treatment accorded to the Russian people. There must be more than a hundred million Russians who would end the Soviet dictatorship to-morrow but for the terror inspired by Bronstein's Red Army of one and a-quarter millions, which is to receive further effective German assistance under the mis- called Russo-German agreements.
At the root of the unreality, to use a mild word, of the pro- ceedings of the Conference was the pretence that the Russian people were represented at the Council table. That was the greatest and the most disastrous "Fiction at Genoa."—I am,
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