The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-11-27
RUSSIA TO Be ON
FEET IN ; YEARS,
THINKS bella KUN
Hungarian Communist Lead
er Says Soviet Economic
Policy Will Succeed
in the End

Moscow, November 26.-(By a
Staff Correspondent of the Associ-
ated Press. Russia will be on her
feet again and take her place among
the wealth-producing nations of the
world within the next four or five
years, says Bella Kun, formerly Hun
garian communist leader. He is now
living with his wife and child in a
small house attached to a hospital
in the outskirts of Moscow.
He writes for the communistic
press, is active in the third inter-
rationale and is well thought of in
the councils of the big five" who
control affairs in Russia, namely
Lenine. Trotzky, Kaminiev, DJerin-
sky and Boukharin.
It will be recalled that Bella Kun
was head of the communist govern
ment in Hungary for five months in
the spring and summer or 1919 and
had to flee when the Rumanian army
invaded the country and completed
the wreclage wrought by the World
war. To the correspondent of the
Associated Press he said;
I'VE are on the right road now
here in Russia. 1 am not speaking
as an official of the soviet republic.
hut it is evident that the new eco
nomic policy will succeed. Russia
will come back in four or five years.
You have just been through Rus
STA. You see how rich she is, rich
as the United States in forests, in
soil, in mines. Her people have
broken down the old feudalism. They
are at least free. They are being
educated. and that is wealth. too.
surely such country should have
a better chance of repaying foreign
investments than bankrupt countries
Of western Europe lacking Russia 5
natural resources.
The government here is finished
with revolutions and is growing more
stable anr will and can protect for
eign Investments. Industrial or So
cial revolutions may come elsewhere,
but we are through with them.
Communism has not failed. Until
now we were running a sort of war
communism and We were hit by the
foreign blockade. too. With peace
the government will continue to con-
lIot anu OWN Inc great
and in the end will absorb all but
the smaller ones. That doesn't mean
that there isn't room for foreign
concessions. Russia is so big.
I'VE are not getting around to a
democratic government like that of
the United States. We are doing bet
ter. We are working to liberate the
workers and try to prevent their ex-
ploitation.
I'm considering business hazards
with Russia, let the American busi-
ness men remember that so far thu
United States has obtained only nice
bits OF paper, promises to pay from
France. England and Italy, on the
huge sums loaned there"
Bella Kun Is working to overcome
the famine, which he fears may ex-
tend far into the next year, partly
because Of the lack of seed grain
which tho soviet government can't
provide in sufficient quantities. part
ly due to tho hazards OF weather. He
is pushing tho plan of an inter-
national loan to be launched through
trade unions the world over. The
plan is to have the soviet govern
ment guarantee the loan. to be issued
in bonds from 81 up.
Bella Kun believes that persons
who might not otherwise subscribe
to famine charity would buy these
bonds. in the hope of their redemns
ton, five or ten years hence, when
tho Russian government has recov-
cred its financial credit.