"Cold, Reptilian Blood"

Of all the prominent Frenchmen and Englishmen accused at the Red Trial in Moscow of trying to overthrow the Soviet State (see above) only the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, Privy Councillor of His Majesty George V, had admitted the charge up to last week.

Writing for his friend William Randolph Hearst's Universal Service, Mr. Churchill confessed:

"So long as Great Britain was in a state of war or quasi-war with the Bolshevik Republic I did my utmost to encompass their downfall. . . . But from the moment when they were recognized by His Majesty's Government I was precluded by the laws of my country and by my duty to the them." Crown from all hostile action against The period of Mr. Churchill's "hostile action" would thus be from the establishment of the Soviet Union in 1917 up to its recognition by the first MacDonald Government in 1924. But it might also include the period from 1927 (when Anglo-Soviet relations were broken off by the Baldwin Government in which Mr. Churchill was Chancellor of the Exchequer) up to last year, when the second MacDonald Government extended British recognition to Moscow for the second time. No apologist but a slasher, a thruster, Mr. Churchill wrote of the Soviet State in terms which, if accurate, would ipso facto justify attempts to destroy it by any means: "It is unnatural. It is a monster that has been born into our modern world. A cold reptilian blood flows in its veins. It possesses the science of civilization without its mercy, the fanaticism of religion without its God, the exploitation of human passions and appetites without any ideal beyond their gratification--and that is not achieved." Alluding sarcastically to the numerous U. S., British, French and German citizens who have done business with the Soviet Government, Slasher Churchill mentioned particularly "young Mr. [William Averell] Harriman," thrust home this characteristic conclusion: "All in turn have sought to clasp that clammy hand. All in turn have recoiled injured, infected or at least defiled by its chill, poisonous sweat. But there are plenty of simpletons left to be gulled or bribed."

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