author - "Arthur Ransome"
ewitnessing something very like the suicide of civilizationitself. There are people in both camps who believe thatarmed and economic conflict between revolutionary andnon-revolutionary Europe, or if you like between Capitalismand Communism, is inevitable. These people, in both camps,are doing their best to make it inevitable. Sturdy pessimists,in Moscow no less than in London and Paris, they go so faras to say "the sooner the better," and by all means in theirpower try to precipitate a conflict. Now the main effort inRussia to-day, the struggle which absorbs the chief attentionof all but the few Communist Churchills and CommunistMillerands who, blind to all else, demand an immediatepitched battle over the prostrate body of civilization, isdirected to finding a way for Russia herself out of thecrisis, the severity of which can hardly be realized by peoplewho have not visited the country again and again, and tobringing her as quickly as possible into a state in which shecan export her raw ma
ewitnessing something very like the suicide of civilizationitself. There are people in both camps who believe thatarmed and economic conflict between revolutionary andnon-revolutionary Europe, or if you like between Capitalismand Communism, is inevitable. These people, in both camps,are doing their best to make it inevitable. Sturdy pessimists,in Moscow no less than in London and Paris, they go so faras to say "the sooner the better," and by all means in theirpower try to precipitate a conflict. Now the main effort inRussia to-day, the struggle which absorbs the chief attentionof all but the few Communist Churchills and CommunistMillerands who, blind to all else, demand an immediatepitched battle over the prostrate body of civilization, isdirected to finding a way for Russia herself out of thecrisis, the severity of which can hardly be realized by peoplewho have not visited the country again and again, and tobringing her as quickly as possible into a state in which shecan export her raw ma