The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-14
|BOLSHEVIkI
ALLIANCE
Russians Expect to Get Along rihe
With Germany and Hoist Red
Flag On Inter den
Linden.
IBy Frank ]. Taylor, United Press
Staff Correspondent

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liBy Frank j. Taylor, United Press
Staff Correspondent
| BERLIN, April 10. (by maii)-Ine
Russian bolsheviki are plannlns "
seek commercial alliance with tne
United States. which would also IN
clude Germany and ScandlnaVia, az
cording to M. Makowsh. secret ageh'
of the Lenine government In ber,in.
Should the league Of NATIONS ta,l %
the boIsheviki believe, it wili--Maho"
ski expressed the belief that such
commercial pact might grow INTO
| military and political alliance.
The bolsheyiki. according 70 Ma,
kowski, employees Premier Lenihe
phrase in describing the League OF ma
lions as "a league of capitalists.
President Wilson and his ldea VI
the league are heartily supported y.
Lenine and the other poisneNihl
leaders, but they think both wilson
and his plan have fallen victim ~
capital with which the bolshevih VIII
make no compromise. -
Makowski, who is better known Wy
/ his pen name, &c. P. kahackolf mas
| been in Berlin several weeks. he Is :
one of Lenine's favorite pupils anu
worked all through the Russian revo'
luton as one of the premler's neu'
tenants. Now he Is entrusted win
what the Russians consider their
most important foreign post, Berhn.
lMakowski says his mission IS not SO
secret as it would appear. he says
the German office is looking at MIN
from behind a hand which 1t VIII
pull down at the proper time.
They will soon hunt me up and
say with surprise, oh there you are !
he said.
"How fortunate you are here. we
did not know you were so close AT
hand Then we viii get down to bust
ness and resume relations and the
red flag will again float over the Rus
sian embassy on Unter den Linden.
According to Makowski, the Ger
mans already have made some Dung,
ling attempts to establish relations
with Lenine. The most notable one
was when they sent merchant to
Moscow, he said. Lenine agreed 10
make concessions and put this Ger
man up in a fine house and fed him
extremely we'll The German finally
became a bolshevik himself and had
TIC be called back because of the wild
messages he sent to Berlin by wire
less.
Makowski says the oourgeoisie
must be kept out of the government
until the new system is established
and until everyone become one OF the
II oletariat by reason of the working
Hence the discrimination against the
bourgeoisie by the soviet government
This discrimination according to
Makowski is only temporary.
The communism which the bolshe
wiki are establishing in Russia is
v orking out according to expectations
| il is maintained by Makowski. He
claims the peasants are producing
more and workmen have increased
their output with fewer hours OF
labor.
An exception is in the big cities
where people are hungry because the
, bolsheyiki have not the transportation
necessary to get food to the people
This, he said, is because the bolshe'
Wiki fell heir to run down railway
system and the rolling stock that
could be used had to be employed to
carry troops to the defense of the
country.
Russia's political structure is based
entirely upon the soviet system and
the soviets are elected every four
months, Makowski said. They are
continually changing in personnel.
Lenine could fall three times a
year, if the majority wanted it Makow.
ski pointed out.