RUSSIA AND THE RUSSIANS.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The suggestion of Lord Sydenham in the last issue of your paper that Bolshevik action should be identified by the Press with the Soviet Government and not with the Russians at large, who, as a people, are denied legitimate
voice in political affairs, seems just and right. But the fact must not be lost sight of that, however little the Russians may love their present rulers, those rulers are not likely to lack national support in dealing with foreign Governments on questions which touch Russia's interests or traditional ambitions. Such questions are not few in number, to mention only Constantinople and the Straits, Bessarabia, Poland and Galicia. It would therefore appear to behove our statesmen to differentiate between the two classes of questions in any negotiations between the two Governments to the end that we may avoid uniting Russian opinion even tem- porarily on any occasion in support of the Saviet.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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