The Red Flag
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2015-11-26
issued: 1919-02-08
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note: •~K7~ M \ THE A Journal of News and Views Devoted to the Interests of the Working Class VOL. 1 NO. 4 VANCOUVER, B. C, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY S, 1919 Five Cents Conciliation for Russia? THE recent proposal by the British government of a more conciliatory policy towards Soviet Russia is an amazing fact. It is amazing because until recently all the official statements about Russia dished up both by the British* Foreign Office and the American State Department accused the Soviet Republic of being essentially and exclusively a criminal conspiracy against human liberty and progress. A large part of British and American public opinion accepted this indictment as literally true. It was astonished and beAvildered by the attempt to conciliate a government which had been alleged to be so utterly odious and depraved. Under the circumstances it surely had some excuse for being not only astonished and beAvildered but irritated. Either the official propaganda about the condition in Russia had been a gross distortion of the truth or else the proposed policy of conciliation must be condemned as it Avas condemned by M. Pichon. Unless, consequently, the British government decides to reverse its policy once again, it Avill have to justify its conciliatory disposition by permitting the British and American public to learn Avhat the condition in Russia actually is. That is the meaning of the proposed Anglo-American commission of investigation. It is a frank admission of the falsehood of wliat the Allfefe have said-about revolutionary Russia and of the failure of their policy toAvard her. If the Soviet Republic had been, as the American State Department and the British Foreign Office has alleged, essentially a criminal conspiracy against civilization, there Avould be nothing to investigate except the degree of its guilt and the nature of the punishment. The British government is not likely to reverse its new attitude towards Russia. Its leaders are beginning to learn too much about the existi…
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
spatial: Vancouver
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language: English
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provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : The Socialist Party of Canada
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