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...expect...
...Russia was meeting their obligations...
...sia, to such a minister, would be the same old Russia it has It is a well-nigh hopeless task to reclaim the spoiled child been in all the ages--a vast extent of territory without natural of a family...
...that this unyielding of the imperial regime-an imperialist to the core...
...Rus- tions are binding in justice-not "international illusions...
...This nation can certainly not be bound by peans should not, in Asia, be able to take advantage of Russia's what our "Pape laique" did in Versailles, in stubborn disreweakness...
...His diplomacy is for Russia and for George gard of our laws and customs...
...save a nation like France which cannot muster any virility...
...man of patrician antecedents and cynical temperament...
...Probably he has seen in charity...
...and in Asia, to turn popular sentiment she is now facing by saving her from the mad wars she fought against Europeans...
...has an item headed, The Catholic Press, in which ArchThe Third Internationale as now organized stands in the bishop Dowling of St...
...RAYMOND VERNIMONT...
...The continue to exist or which have developed in spite of Bolshevism human side of the Catholic Church is far from perfect...
...In the West, equally with- and admiration for nations like England and Germany who out natural boundaries, political frontiers were set, after devas- have faced the facts soberly and set themselves to the task of tating wars, by Poland, Germany, and Sweden...
...that the practical men shall win over the disciples bereft of TO the Editor:-The Fortnightly Review, of August r , their inspired chief...
...individuals in the clash of forces which are creating a new Underlying that policy is a tacit admission that we are still epoch in Russia and which are really changing the face of Shylocks after remitting France's war debt...
...It was inevitable that a factional struggle should break out, and now that it has gained more headway than seems to be gen- ON ENCOURAGING CRITICISM erally realized in the United States, it would seem inevitable Denton, Texas...
...shaping the convictions of the people outside of Manhattan...
...that we are makEurope...
...France acts the spoiled child among nations, boundaries, except in the North and East-merging insensibly whining and sobbing because she thinks herself dreadfully in geographical conformation, as in the characteristics of her abused by everyone...
...He is a attitude is inviting a coalition of European enemies against us...
...J. B. CCLEMIANS...
...for we have become thinbe joined openly sooner than most of our observers seem to skinned and resentful of everything but meaningless praise...
...WILLIAM FRANKLIN SANDS...
...Moline, 111...
...But let us pursue One may imagine the joy in power such a man would feel, that end with the clear understanding that international obligatreating, unhampered, with the potentates of the world...
...a nation "to be a citizen of the world...
...We can have a good deal of respect subjects, into Asia on the South...
...Why not, when the diplomatic affairs of Russia are in the An editorial in The Commonweal for August I1, International hands of George Chicherin, or under his guidance...
...in Church officials and doings...
...One Illusion, is of a piece with the policy followed by the New wonders a little at the lack of knowledge of the influence of York Times and New York World...
...It is almost hopeless to try and forced to grow East and South...
...If we had insisted more emphatically before, that the Bolshevist propaganda an instrument to his hand such as France settle her accounts, we might have rendered that unhe never could have hoped for in older days-an instrument happy nation a real service and saved her from the bankruptcy to weaken Europe...
...One may venture to won- pride, which often causes ruin...
...no doubt he saw the passing of a regime which held him justice-a justice which has been long tempered by unavailing back with a minimum of regret...
...Russians today, like the people "The worst evil of all that has come to us from the frequent of all the rest of the world, want comfort and wealth in and unreasonable agitations of our traditionally hostile critics, security and peace...
...It is a laudable ambition for Chicherin-not for any particular form of government...
...ing enemies by our uncharitable, irritating attitude of insistChicherin is an able and disappointed professional diplomat ing that France pay her post-war loans...
...The through the sheer urge of men to live and to acquire personal Catholic press should be given perfect liberty in exposing faults belongings in spite of all restraint...
...T O the Editor:-A student of far-eastern affairs, speaking T O the Editor:-We in the West who get a glimpse at recently at Williamstown, accuses the Soviet government the New York papers now and then, are sometimes wonof being more imperialisitc than ever was the Czar's imperial dering in how far New York imagines that it is voicing or government...
...Is there not too much laudaWe hear much in certain public addresses of the progress tion of our Catholic doings...
...Paul is quoted as saying: way of personal acquisition...
...REV...
...Men who, at one time, were der if it is not, rather, the other side of the shield that people saints and apostles could not remain such under a load of see-attributing to the benefits of Bolshevism those things which flattery...
...Lenin had seen a vision...
...Russians will back the party which gives has been that we have dispensed ourselves from the imperative them the tangibles of life, and it may be that the issue will duty of criticizing ourselves sanely...
...The other leaders hard-headed western mind...
...We Catholics should encourage criticism...
...it must be paid, as a matter of pure him...
...Does not laudation lead to of Russia under the Soviet regime...
...were disciples or practical men fishing in troubled waters...
...There is hardly a doubt that with the death of Lenin, the Mushy sentimentality carefully disguised under smooth phraseprophet, the Soviet system as a form of government entered ology, may appeal more to the soft eastern heart than to the upon a new era...
...Are these words exaggerated...
...It is enough for the moment that Euro- after Versailles...
...428 THE COMMONWEAL September 8, 1926 COMMUNICATIONS BENEFITS AND BOLSHEVISM INTERNATIONAL ILLUSION Biddeford, Maine...
...REV...
...The Western convictions are fairly well crvstalized on the subbureaucratic ministry of Foreign Affairs cramped and soured ject of the French debt...
Vol. 4 • September 1926 • No. 18
