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3. Send five to ten coal experts to
get coal out of the ground in the
Donetz basin.
4. Send commission on other ma
tural industries like iron into the
Urals, and so on.
;. Send finance commission to aid
the soviet in solving the Russian fl
nancial muddle, ignoring for the time
being the reputation of debts, which
believe, will not be permanent. Our
legal position regarding the repuda-
tion is secure through the allied pro-
test concerning it,
Buy Up Russian Products
6. Send an industrial commission
for the purpose of purchaing ar
ticles in Russia and shipping them to
America, SO as to prevent these ar
ticles from going to Germany. This
will be in the nature of an extended
blockade. Russia will exchange raw
materials, such as flax, platinum
hides and SO on, on the basis of bar
ter.
7 Appoint commission in Ameri-
ca for the purpose of arranging ton
mage and selecting certain supplies
and American manufactured articles,
choosing those which Russia needs
most and sending them to the Rus
sian ports of Vladivostok, Archangel
and Murmonsk. In the same bot
toms that bring the manufactured ar
ticleS remove raw materials of equal
value that would go to England.
s. Establish immediate credits in
America for the purpose of purchas-
ing manufactured articles intended
for Russia, which would be exchanged
for an equal value in raw materials
on reaching a Russian port.
9. Prevent Immediately the avail
able natural resources of Russia from
going to Germany through taking
them ourselves and sending back to
Russia just sufficient manufactured
articles to pay for them Thus Rus
Sia's debt to the allies will not be in
creased, while Germany will be de-
prived of large quantities of needed
war material.
Hundred Americans on the Way
Some allied cooperation has al
ready been started. Today there are
five allied military missions working
that are close in the confidence of
TrotZky and other leaders engaged in
organizing the new revolutionary
army. One hundred American rail
way perators are traversing Man
churia on their way to help the soviet
actually to evacuate munitions from
Petrograd to- points beyond the Volga
and out of reach of the Germans
should they again advance. The So
Wet is showing extreme willingness
to place the munitions beyond the
reach of the Germans. This of itself
should be evidence of its good faith.
Here is general summary of the
situation: The bolsheviki used So
cialistic formulas for the purpose of
obtaining control of the soviet's or
ganization and Outsing Kerensky. The
soviet power is permanent, unless
it is deposed by German or Japanese
inperialistic force. The soviet gov
ernment today is not socialistic.
Neither is it a proletariat dictator
ship, because the soviet government
is founded on the power of the soviet
organization, which, in turn, is
founded on Slav basis, the principle
of which is democracy or the village
mir.
Ninety three per cent of the people
belong to the proletarat or the peas
ant masses. The other 7 per cent are
mobiles, capitalists and
landowners. These are the ones who
complain in of a porletarait dictatorship.
Russian Democracy Will Not Die
Russia is rather suffering from
birth pains than death throcs. The
soviet is championing new form of
democracy. While essentially differ
ent from the Anglo Saxon idea, it is
real democracy nevertheless, which,
with the passage of time, will GER
tainly spread into Slavic Austria. De-
mocracy is the idea underlying the
allies struggle. The Russian soviet's
democracy will never die, regardless
of the allied attitude. The country
is strong of freedom, but unless the
allies support it perhaps Germany
or Japan will succeed either in stiff
ling or rifing it,
Democratic Russia is getting angry
with Germany for the first time since
the world war began. The Russians
now fell Germany as an individual