The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-01
Former Chinese Barber
 Is Arch Boss m Russia
Ipak Yen Lennes Right Hand Man and Entire Soivet
 Policy Now Seems to Be Product of His Brain

Trotzky a report declaring that all the army commissaries were thieves; their accounts impudent forgeries. Having him- self accumulated 100000 rubles he set his face sternly against graft
 Trotzky sent him down the Volga to organize opposition to the Denikinists at Tsaritsin. Ipak Yen found that impos- slble. So he planned better coup. He organized a peasant rising in Deniken's rear and forced the whole Denil1in army to preeipitate retreat
 Two months later Ipak Yen got his final promotion. Lenine heard of him. Lenine always seeks for men like Ipak Yen. Being tough, unyielding, irritable, slow himself, he wants men who are quick, facile, accomm odating, resourceful and popular Ipak was his man.
 Lenine was then in trouble. He was fighting the extraordinary commissions he was fighting the orthodox communists, who had impeached hinl. for restoring capitalism; he was fighting the labor or ganizations which assailed him for re- establishing factory despotisui.
 He took Ipak Yen as his adviser and Ipak with his invariable smile and his ability to pour out liquor. made peace all round. The quarrel with the extraor- dinary council was settled by a regularly signed peace treaty. drawn up by Ipak. under which the commission pledged
 
 and Lenine guaranteed that Dzerzhinsky, head of the council, would keep his job.
 Ipak next negotiated with the angry orthodox communists and the still angrier labor men. Everywhere he poured oil on the political waves.
 Bolshevik Moscow whispers that Linine does nothing without Ipak. Ipak has no obstinate principles that stand in his way. He is a cold man without a coun- try, calculating, insinuatings oriental, who likes his job, his motor cars, his sec retares, his five wives, all Russians. by the way, and who worships only one Deity. the Deity success.
 In foreign affairs 1paks advice al- ways overrules Tchitcherin's. True, 1pak has never been in Europe proper, and Tchitcherin knows Europe from Lisbon to Stockholm, and speaks six languages. But Ipak is the better man. He breaches caution, slowness, conciliation compro- misc practicability. And if Lenine, Tchitcherin and Litvinoff have inundated Europe with peace offers during. the past two months, it is entirely due to Ipak Ipak doesn't care a nickel about bolshevism He considers that dozen American capitalists would set Russia on her legs 10 times quicker than all the rhetoric of Trotzky and all the hatred of Ienine. So in October last Ipak pre- selted an ungpammatical but diplomatic ally unimpeachable memorandum to Tch- itcherin, urging that real efforts should be made for the attainment of lasting ptace' And they are certainly being made
 Ipak's only foe is spitflre Madame Radek. Madame Radek aims at being Lenine's Egeria; she gives him unasked advice, good and bad; and Lenine who despises all men, somewhat respects her But of late the insinuating lpak has cut her out Rumor says that madame spat in Ipak's face and tore his hair; and rumor adds that Ipak all the time smiled, begged madame. to be seated 1 hoped that he had not unintentionaliy caused her offense, and suggested that he and she should contract permanent all Iiance for the salvation of beloved Rus | sia and their own enrichment.
 l (Copyright, 1920, by Edward MarshalLJ