The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-07
Intrigues to Kill Organized Government
Steadily Being Planned in Moscow,
No Country Being Ignored

able and unwilling to make the financial
sacrifices necessary for the retention or re-
conquest of these immense territories.
Constantinople is an important centre of
Bolshevik activity and an unusually ener-
getic agent of the Soviet. DR.. Mansur-I
think is his name-oscilates between that
city and Budapest. In the centre Of this
fiendish activity at Moscow, with Bolshevik
agents arriving daily by some subterranean
route or with false passports, with hourly
announcements of strikes and labor troubles
all over the world. with revolutionary leaders
coming from the ends of the earth to do
homage to the red flag which floats over
the Kremlin and to take council with the
successful arch-conspirator who sits under
1t, felt as If the end Of all things had al
ready come.
Cut off, like leper, from all the Govern
ments Of the world Lenine is nevertheless
in daily communication with the most des-
perate and dangerous section of every peo-
pie. He receives ambassadors not accredited
by kings or presidents, but, nevertheless
bringing terrible credentials from lawlcss
associations which have sworn to carry out
his policy Of violence and blood. One day
he signed agreement with the American
I. w. w. as King George might sign treaty
with France. Another day he received
deputation of "the Russian Friends of Amer
lean Freedom"-an association Of expelled
American anarchists who aim at smashing
the Government and the whole social system
Of the United States-as President Wilson
might receive the heads Of an nterchurch
movement. He dined in the ancient palace
of the Cars with a group of powerful and
dangerous Mohammedans whose object is to
create chaos from Alexandria to Khartoum
and to deluge half Asia with blood.
A Picture of Lenins Bellies What He H..
Done Since Getting Power.
And yet he looks a most harmless, bour-
geois person. At the ninth Communist con-
vention, which was the only public function
he attended during my stay in Moscow. he
spoke freely. monotonously, without the
faintest trace OF hesitation nervousness,
like the chairman of London tea house
company reading out an unsensational an
nual report which most of his hearers knew
already. Dressed in rusty black with trou-
which were somewhat baggy at the
knees and a general appearance of reason
ableness and responsibility, he looked at first
sight safe. unpretentious middle class per-
son in fairly comfortable circumstances. His
head was bald, but with dull, notified and
not a shiny, billiard ball hairlessness. His
beard was scanty and reddish; his eyes far
apart and with a cast in one of them: his
cheek bones high; his face broad and with a
dim, disturbing suggestion of Asia which
half prepared one for the monstrous theories
he proceeded to set forth in his matter of
fact voice and manner
For some reason or other very little of his
speech on this occasion appeared in the
newspapers. Perhaps because Russia was
at that moment seeking recognition by cap
italist" governments In one brilliant pas
sage, which was omitted, he declared himself
unable to describe precisely the form which
the Soviet Government would assume until
the volcanic explosions cease and the smoke
clears away, and we can see the new shape
into which the landscape has hardened"
According to Trotzky, the Red Car often
lights up a debate with unprecedented re-
marks like this. remarks In which the Com
mssars discover profound and prophetic sig
nifcance. But he discounts even mis- most
terrible sayings by the businessike even
ness Of his delivery and by his habit of
handling pens and other objects on the
table in front of him, and occasionally in
sorting his thumbs in the armholes of his
waistcoat. gesture which displays a COM
Portable and slightly protuberan. abdomen.
Looking at him such occasions without
knowing who he or what he was talk
ing about, one would feel inclined to say,
Nov this is a safe, reliable man saying rea-
sonable things"
Death Hovers Over His Head and No Es-
cape Seems Possible.
Save trat the sedentary life he has led