Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-02-08
If Small Armies Are Sent Into
Muscovite Territory They
Will Be Defeated; Big Arm
les Would Mean Big War.
COMPLIMENTS WILSON
AS VERY SHREWD MAN
Expects Soviet Form of Gov
ernment to Be Inaugurated
Everywhere; Capitalists Now
Completely Control Business
BY Arno Dosch- FIeurot.
(Staff Correspondent of The Albu-
querque journal and New York
WapII
Copyright, 1919, by the Press Pub
fishing Co.
(The New York World)

Copyright. 1919, by the Press Pub
fishing Co.
{The New York World)
Especial Cable Despatch.
Berlin, (via Copenhagen, Feb. L.
Robert Minor. whose interview with
Lenin, the Bolshevik leader, follows,
furnishes the most important contri-
button that has been made to con-
tcmporaneous Russian history. In two
more cablcd articles he will explain
what has occurred in the Russian re-
volution In the last few months.
These cables will show that Minor is
no Bolshevist.. Texas born, of VIr-
ginia blood, he Is so aggrcssivcly
democratic that some would call him
an anarchist.
Because he thought there had been
n miscarriage of justice he gave
year of his life to save Thomas j.
Mooney from hanging, in San Fran
cisco. Then he went to Russia. where
he thought the BOlsheviki were Civ
ing the perfect liberty that he crayed.
After living through that terror he
has come to Berlin. disiiiusioni1ed.
ami ennp.ticrcd. ms is Miaor 5
story:
BY Robert Minor.
have Just come from MOSCOW,
where little more than one week
ago had talk with Lenin which bears
materially upon the present difficulty
in which the entente finds itself in re-
lation to the Bolshevik government.
Previously | had taxed with him cas-
ually during my stay of nine months
in Russia. This time Lenin knew he
was giving an interview, and he ap-
preciated the effect it might have on
the outside world. AS far as | know
il is the only interview he ever grant
ed since he has been in power in Rus
sia.
He couched his thoughts in terms
of world revolution, as one riding wild
horses who felt his hold in the sad
die depended on his maintaining the
attitude of the worlds most uncom-
promising rebel.
1t will be noticed, however, that
while his intransigent phrases flow
with rapid automatic ease, his man
ner became different and much more
deliberate when | introduced the sub
iect that had led me to seek him
the relation Of the Bolsheviki to the
entente and the possibility of an un-
derstanding,
7 felt certain that Lenin wants
peace. 1t was that feeling that took
me to him. All Moscow, indeed had
been drifting into almost certain
knowledge that he had become willing
to comply with the prime requisite of
peace-namely to pay the war debts
contracted by the old regime, which
had been repudiated by the soviets In
the early days of their defiance.
Insolent Tone Peace "Feelcr."
In the note to President Wilson by
Chcherin, the peoples commissary
for foreign affairs, the tone was un-
deniably insolent, but tucked away
under the sulphuric phrases one might
detect feeler as to the nature of the
allies demands. | had noticed that
while it's sarcastic wording was ac-
cepted as orthodox by the socialist
PARTY hacks, the more alert caught in
the phrases a significant willingness
to pay the debts.
] might say it is not easy for the
Rolshevik chiefs to show any spirit of
compromise before the anarchist
forces in Russia, which, while they
are fast subsidiEg, yet remain much
stronger than the men who are trying
to rule Russia. l approached Lenin
wieh the view of helping him to
pave the way for definite answer
to the invitation to the various Rus
sian factions to meet in conference
with representatives of the allies at
Princes islands, in the sea of Mar.
mora / said to him ] was leaving
Russia and wanted something definite
TO carry away. He exchanged places
with his collaboration. Boris Reinstein.
the former Buffalo soapbox orator,
and slowly replied:
"The Russian government would be
inclined to pay it's debts If by that
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