We note that Dr. Shadwell ends his remarkable letter with
the statement that, on the whole, he would rather see the Treaty ratified than not, because its effects will be very instructive. Bolshevism, he declares, is an evil thing, but it is potent. So strong is the hold it has obtained on Russia that nothing except experience will banish it.
" Every attempt to suppress Bolshevism has strengthened it. When let alone It has at once beim to totter. This Treaty, if ratified, will do no good here, neither will it do much harm. But it will be a strand of the rope with which Bolshevism will eventually- hang itself."
We commend these words to those who think that they are dealing a blow to bloodstained revolutionaries by refusing to negotiate a Treaty. Rather, they are doing the exact opposite, as Burke did when he denounced the Regicide Peace with torrents of inflammatory rhetoric. The Committee of Public Safety and the Terror would have fallen long before they did but for the policy of the Allies and their fatuous support of the emigres.
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