Germany Warned

With the probability, amounting almost to a certainty, that Germany will soon join the League of Nations, the Bolsheviki decided that, it was again time to warn Berlin of its folly.

Accordingly, Isvestia, official Communist journal of Moscow, said:

"We repeatedly warned Germany as regards the consequences of joining the League. We still consider it very risky. Germany is at liberty to act according to her own interpretation of expediency in such a step, but she should know that if she takes the step, the Soviet union will have to take measures to safeguard its own interests in a different direction, which lies outside strengthening and developing her economic and political connections with Germany."

The peroration: "England needs Germany as a weapon for balancing her policy in Europe and as a base of attacks on the Soviet union. Since the Conservatives came into power, England is trying by all means to drag Germany into the League in order to use her as a bulwark for possible attacks on Russia."