The French Chamber on Saturday last rejected, by a majority
of nearly three to one, a Socialist motion to recall the French troops from Russia. It was stated on behalf of the Government that there would be no French expedition to Russia. M. Pichon had announced earlier in the week that H. Clemenceau still believed in barring the westward course of Bolshevism by a "sanitary cordon" on the Russian frontier. He said that there were twenty-three thousand Allied troops, mainly British, at Archangel; one hundred and eighteen thousand Allies, mostly Bohemians and Poles, in Siberia under General Janin ; and a small French, Greek, and Rumanian force at Odessa. Admiral Koltchak, who stood for Russian unity and a Constituent Assembly, was, M. Pichon said, increasing daily in strength in Eastern Russia. It was a profound mistake, he declared, to identify Russia with Bolshevism, which was not a Government, but " the organization of anarchy by terror." That is the plain truth, which some well-meaning people still refuse to face.
