Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-30
Soviet Rule
In Russia
Is Waning
State Department Officials
Say Process of Evolution by
Peaceful Penetration" Ia
Already Discernible.
Stable Government Near
By ARTHUR SEARS HENNING.
Chicago Tribune Omaha Bee Leased Wire.

Chicago Tribune Omaha Bee Leased Wire.
Washington. Dec. g. - Disap-
| pointed i'll the hope that Lenine and
Trotsky would be overthrown by
force, the Wilson administration. il
was learned today. is now pinning It's
faith TO the destruction of the soviet
government of Russia through the
peaceful penetration" OF the con-
scrvative elements.
State department officials, in dis
! cussing the Russian situation, as
serted that this process of evolution
already is discernible. Their informa-
ton is that the leaders of the soviet
| republic are beginning 10 discard
bolshevik theories and that the tend
ency is i'll the direction of forming all
autocratic government.
Bourgeoisie Gaining.
The bourgeoisie. it is said, are more
numerous than ever i'll Russia now
and are gradually regaining control,
while state management of industry
has fizzled out and communism GEN
orally is dying of inanition. 1t is not
expected that there will be a coup
detat in Moscow; rather, that ele-
ments other than the communist will
ooalesce with the existing changing
government, further modifying it,
until in the course of one or two
years, but possibly earlier, and due
largely to economic factors, stable,
representative government will
emerge.
The bolshevik leaders themselves,
it is shown by the departments in
tclligence, are becoming more and
more conservative, by the granting
OF concessions to foreigners, new
policy being vigorously pursued by
the Moscow government, being a.
flagrant violation OF all the bolshevist
principles. This is taken as proof
of the conviction that has come to
the autocrats of Moscow, that COM
nlunist principles already have failed
and of their determination, even by
resortlng to pure autocracy to main
tain themselves in power in Russia.
Coutry Self-Supporting.
Officials here declare that Russia
would be self-supporting if so organ
| lied as to be able to use the COM
rnodities she produces; hut the COM
munications are in desperate con-
dition and the peasants refuse to
yield UP their products for worthless
paper money. 80
An authority well-informed con-
cerning the internal situation OF
Russia said today:
"How serious the internal indus
trial conditions of Russia, and how
real the need is for Moscow to en-
list foregn capital and ioregn organ
ization can be gathered from the
propaganda now being carried on
throughout the world for the re-
sumption Of trade with Russia.
"The effort meets everywhere, how
ever, with the stumbling block OF
the Russian communistic propagan-
da calculated to bring about the re-
sumption of trade with Russia by
various governments.
Negotiations Difficult.
The 5olsheviki commissary at
London, is finding his negotiations
with the British authorities very diff
hcult on this account. Downing
street demands explicitly discon
tinuance OF bolsheviki and commu-
nistic propaganda in all parts of the
British empire as an indispensable
condition to the official resumption
Of trade with Moscow. The czarist
government debt is, of course.
another difficulty. From the internal
point of view the question of prop
aganda is harder for krassin to
answer than that of what portion of
the czarist debts would be assumed
by the soviet government.
Most dependable observers of
the soviet negotiations at London
are of the opinion that the entire
Russia trade treaty project may fail
/ through after all. and similarly III
formed people think that perhaps
private oil contracts and private con-
cessions may eventually prove to be
the sum total of Krassin's indcfatig-
able efforts"