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THE BOLSHEVIKS AND THE JEWS.
Amid the dramatic events further West,
the situation in Russia and the future of that
country remain impenetrably obscure. The
military situation may be partially cleared up
by the withdrawal of the German and Aus-
trian armies. But the Red Guards and the
Allies will still remain, as will also the
struggle between the Bolshevists and their
domestic enemies, and he would be a wise
man who would say just now exactly how
the great riddle will be solved and the per-
plexing tangle straightened out. M. Kerensky,
in an interview with a representative of the
"Jewish Chronicle," offers no glimpse of the
possible solution. He tells us that the defeat
of the Bolsheviks would end the anti-Semitic
movement, but he informs us also that the
Bolsheviks have fostered the movement until
if has acquired, in the Ukraine and South
Russia, "a tremendous force." This is surely
very disquieting, as well as perplexing, and
we should like to see some sign that the Allies
are thinking out a definite line of policy for
Russia.
M. Kerensky, however, in his interview,
vindicates fully the conduct of Russian Jewry
from the very first days of the war, and even
before. He denies the charge that the Jews
were the German spies par excellence. Ho
asserts that though many Bolshevik chiefs
are renegade Jews, who have lost touch with
Russia and Jewry, ninety-nine per cent, of the
Russian Jews are heart and soul opposed to
Bolshevism. "During the whole of the Revo-
lution," he tells us, "the Jewish intellectuals
and the Jewish masses, of all non-Russian
races, were the most faithful supporters of
the Revolution, with which they were closely
linked together, as well as with the general
interests of the country. . . . The Jews
everywhere worked together with the parties
coalesced to organise and support the Pro-
visional Government. The Jewish bankers,
firms, the workers' unions, the Bund—they
all were for national defence and for co-
operation with the moderate bourgeois ele-
ments in the upbuilding of the new State."
They even, "for the sake of the common
cause and in order not to weaken the na-
tional unity and the solidarity of the people,"
refrained from pressing their own special
grievances. It is well to have these facts on
record, and from a man who speaks with so
much authority.
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