Sir Walter Monckton's visit to Moscow to co-ordinate propa- ganda,
if that is the proper phrase, is very timely. There is no question that the Russians have much to teach us in this field, though we are learning a good deal of it already. But on the political side co-ordination is needed. Take, for example, incitements to subject-nations to revolt. That is a matter of the very highest policy, which concerns most of all the Govern- ments of those countries in London. Premature risings can do nothing but harm, and result only in the kind of butchery with which Hitler's hangman is blackening the German name in Czechoslovakia. Simultaneous movements, at the moment when the chance of success is greatest, are the only objective to aim at. That, I believe, is the view of the Governments in London, who have been more concerned to check revolt for the present than to .foment it. It is not clear that Russian propa- ganda, which has always specialised in methods of subversion, has taken full account of that. Obviously when the time for instigation comes London and Moscow must act in vigorous unison. Till then it is equally important that they should accom- modate their pace, a rather slower pace, to one another. This is a matter which seems to concern Sir Stafford Cripps as well as Sir Walter Monckton.
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