New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol. 8, Pt. 2, No. 1, July 1918Various
History
New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol. 8, Pt. 2, No. 1, July 1918
Various
World War, 1914-1918
The Bolshevist Government, which exists but by the grace of
our German masters, assumes, under the pressure of Germany's
Ambassador, a provoking attitude toward the allied powers,
and particularly toward France, addressing to them insulting
ultimatums which are in striking contrast with the servile
docility they manifest in executing the orders of German
imperialism. The Russian Social Revolutionary Party sends
its socialist greetings to the French section of the Labor
International, and protests against the spirit of the foreign
policy of the present dictators of Russia.
The Social Revolutionary Party declares at the same time that the
newly formed Communist group, formerly Bolsheviki, must on all
accounts be excluded from the International for having called
upon the most elementary principles of democracy to resuscitate
forms of despotism and violence. They have betrayed the cause of
international socialism by an infamous separate peace with the
crowned despots of Central Europe, transforming Russia, disarmed,
humiliated, and crushed, into an administrative supply house
destined to sustain the German offensive in the west.
The Social Revolutionary Party expresses the hope that all the
national sections of the Labor International will determine
their attitude as regards the Bolshevist usurpers, taking into
consideration this declaration of our party, which itself has the
right to speak for all Russian labor, having held an absolute
majority in the Constitutional Convention, whose powers will
be resuscitated in spite of the sanguinary repressions made by
the usurpers of power. We beg our French comrades to send this
declaration to the Socialist parties of the allied countries.
FIGHTING IN SIBERIA
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