Abstract

Exit Georgia

In this article the author reports that Georgia, the last hold of the anti-Bolshevists between India and the Mediterranean and between the White Sea and the Persian Gulf, turned soviet. The event is the culmination of a long campaign of quiet but effective propaganda emanating from the Kremlin, whose strength has been not so much in what Soviet Union can or will do for the Transcaucasia states as in what the Western European Powers have failed to do for them. The author informs that with Georgia, the pressure of poverty and economic anarchy had never been so great as with Azerbaijan and Armenia. Georgia produces the best manganese in the world and manganese is greatly in demand, manganese was therefore bartered for food and materials of first necessity.