GENOA?
_ [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]
Sut,—At intervals in the history of the world inhuman monsters have arisen who, either- from delight in killing- and
torturing their fellow-men, or from callous zeal in destroying populations regarded as too large to fit in with their social and political " systems," deliberately set about murder on a huge scale. Such were Attila in the fifth century, Tamerlane in the fourteenth, and Robespierre, Marat, and Carrier in the eighteenth. Persons of this diabolical mentality have doubt- less existed in all ages, but emerged only when favourable opportunities for indulging their blood lust were presented to them. It has fallen to us in the twentieth century to witness the most appalling exhibition of designed mass-destruction that has ever stained the annals of mankind. The loss of human life, and the depths of human suffering for which the Marxian dictators of Russia are responsible, already exceed the aggregate of the achievements of all their predecessors, and the end is not yet. Possibly our successors may read of these infamies with a detached sense of horror, but upon us, for various. reasons, the impression has been largely negligible. We seem to have lost as a nation that power of feeling and showing burning resentment against crime which is one of the greatest safeguards of Christianity and civilization.
Were it otherwise, the recent conversations in Downing Street, the inevitable results of which we are beginning to realize, would have been impossible, and the proposal that we should meet the authors of the greatest tragedy the world has ever known in equal conference with the representatives of states enjoying civilized forms of government, could never have been made. There are, of course, reasons for this cynical willingness to rehabilitate the Marats and Carriers of Russia, which I cannot now explain; but I beg you, Sir, to note that n11 the persons reported to be selected as delegates to the Con- ference at Genoa, with the exception of Lenin, appear to be Jews with Slav cover-names. Russia, before the advent of Lenin, Trotsky, and a horde from the East End of New York, was an intensely religious country, and her tyrants have failed in their desperate attempts to extirpate Christianity among the masses. What will Russians in the future feel towards a nation which accepts Jews as representing their great country?
I also beg you to nate carefully the powerful influences brought to bear on Labour here to secure the permanence of the rigime of murder and slavery in Russia. The Communist provides the Semitic controllers of by far the largest army in Europe with advice. They are to demand compensation for " the damage wrought by the Allies' War," because " the international working class is solidly behind Russia," that is, behind the foreign tyrants who have killed, ruined, and starved the Russian working classes by millions at their sweet will. The dupes of Communism, who seem to be as credulous as the ltioplalis, are bidden to demand the Genoa Conference as the main hope for diminishing unemployment. " Good old Trotsky " is a popular expression in some circles, and the welfare of British Labour is being represented as dependent upon the retention of power by this present day Tamerlane, who has done more than any other individual to create the difficulties from which our manual workers are suffering. When one considers the plain facts about Russian trade now and before the War, the awful conditions in Russia, and the impossibility of her recovery until her assassins have been swept away, it must be evident that immense and costly propa- ganda work was necessary to inspire the hopeless fallacies which British working men have been induced to accept. This opens a very large subject, and I will only say that evidence of the existence of a world conspiracy against Christ- ianity in general and the British Empire in particular are
accumulating every day.—I am, Sir, &c., SYDENSAM.
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