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reply to the Soviet proposal for a general armistice and for peace negotiations was an insidious attack upon the Ukraine, an attack led under the banner of the restitution of the power of Petlura, an adventurer, who sold himself in turns to the Allied capitalists and to German imperialism and who, repeatedly overthrown by the workers and peasants of the Ukraine has given himself to the disposal of the Polish landlords, these longstanding exploiters and oppressors of the Ukrainian people. Poland is carrying on a war for the purpose of robbing the Ukrainian peasants of their lands which is to be transferred to the Polish landlords. Poland is carrying on a war to lay a heavy indemnity upon defeated Soviet Russia, upon Russia ruined by the attacks of Allied capital. This is what Poland is fighting for!
But the Polish landlords and capitalists are not the only party guilty of this war. The governments of the Entente ate equally guilty. It is they who have armed and are arming White guard Poland. Conducting trade negotiations with Soviet Russia they at the same time have not given up the hope of breaking the power of the workers and Peasants of Russia. It is their have by means of trading with Soviet Russia to disorganise that country from within, but still more hopes are laid by a number of persons who form the composite government of the Entente upon the expectation that with the attack of some counter-revolutionary power against Worker Peasant Russia it will be possible with the assistance of these bands once more to harness the Russian proletariat and the Russian peasantry. The French capitalists have sent to Poland not only a vast quantity of armaments but they have also dispatched 600 officers with general Anri at the head, who are to assist the incapable Polish officers to lay waste to Soviet Russia. One firm remonstrance, a resolute word to Poland on the part of the British Government, a reminder that we had sufficient war and devastation and that Russia is universally needed as the source of corn and raw material—this alone would suffice to stem the tide of the war; but the Government of Lloyd George, which is sending notes to the Soviet Government, appealing to its humanitarian sentiments, demanding an amnesty for the Rus-
