Comintern Rhetoric This country and the United States have shown
very doubtful wisdom in protesting to the Soviet Government against speeches delivered—most of them not by Russian subjects—at the recent meeting of the Communist ,International in Moscow, Communism is on the down grade everywhere. Russia itself is less Communistic than it was, as is shown by recent ordinances increasing the amount of stock the peasant may maintain as his private property. The Comintern itself has shared in the general slump, and can no longer be regarded • as mouthpiece of the Soviet Government. That being so the sensible thing would be to let well alone. German émigrés, and anyone else, are free to attack the Nazi Government in London, Italian entigrgs and anyone else to attack the. Fascist Government. 'A few . wild words in Moscow once a year need disturb the repose neither of Whitehall nor Washington. There are other More subtle and dangerous forms of propaganda that May well demand protest on occasion. But it is flattering Comintern 'speeches to dignify them thus. No news= Paper-reader in this -country fluttered an eyelid over the MoscoW rhetoric'till the Governments began protesting. • • * • * *
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