- The results of Bolshevism on tbe domestic conditions
of Russia have been depicted by John Clayton and Col. Reilly of The TRIBUNE
Foreign News Service. In later articles Mr. Clayton discusses the Bolshevist
foreign policy, which is that of a militant internationalism plotting to
overthrow all foreign governments and set up a world dictatorship of the
proletariat.
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- But Mr. Clayton also points out that this revolutionary
movement is not entirely Bolshevist or impartially international. He says
that the secret intelligence organization of the entente and our own governments
have found that Jewish radicals play an important part in the movement
and alao nationals of other countries hostile to the entente, as Germans
and Austrians.
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- The Jewish phase of the movement, he asserts, aims at
a new racial domination of the world, and its main purpose, logically,
is the dismemberment of the British empire and the destruction of our expanding
American commerce.
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- The brains of this movement, he asserts, are in Berlin.
but its executive head is Trotsky, as the first line of attack is by way
of an Islamic revolt in India, Egypt, and the Caucasus, with resultant
effects to the French and Italian colonies In North Africa.
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- That widespread propaganda exists is clear enough from
conditions in India, Persia, and Egypt. In the new Caucasian republics
Bolshevism already is in control. It is natural that the Jews of Russia
and of central Europe, victims for centuries of terrible persecution and
oppression, should be active in any attempt to create a new racial power
for themselves by the overthrow of existing dominations.
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- But in England and the United States the Jews, except
for recent immigrations from regions where oppression has been the rule,
are loyal nationalists and conservative upholders of the national traditions.
With Jews In the British peerage and in the highest places of power and
in our own country enjoying the greatest prosperity and all the privileges
possessed by non-Jews, a Jewish world movement would get little support,
especially one allied to Bolshevlsm.
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- But a plot to destroy British and its allied influence
throughout the world apparently is in full operation. The pan-Islamic revolt,
in fact, was prescribed in Bernhardi's "World Power or Downfall"
as an important phase of the strategy of pan-Germanism. Extremists among
the radicals, even of countries such as Italy, now in alliance with England,
are active in various parts of the world, and we should undoubtedly find
a good deal of sympathy for the whole movement among sentimental radicals
and nationalist enemies of Great Britain in our own country and elsewhere.
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- The situation is worthy of serious American attention
and consideration. The rise of pan-Islam might not affect us at once or
directly. The substitution of another influence than British In world affairs
would most certainly have a serious and far from favorable effect upon
our security and prosperity. The theory of British domination is greatly
exaggerated, as we know very well.
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- If British domination exists it rests very lightly on
the world's shoulders, and America especially would be foolish to exchange
it for a situation dominated from Berlin or Moscow, with militant Mohammedanism
to support it. We know what Russian Bolshevism is doing. We know what pan-Germanism
tried to do. We know what Islamism would mean. If the world is to be one
Americans can live in our strength must be thrown with that of Britain
and western Europe. Theirs is our civilization and our security and our
progress.
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