Arizona republican., 1921-12-26
RUSSIAN SOVIET ULERETURM|NG TO CAP|TAL|ST|C TRADE ME ETHODS
Year 1921 Marked By Eff forts of Soviets To Re gain Trade Standing With Other Powers
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 MOSCOW, Dec. 25-Nineteen hun dred and twenty-one has been a year of diplomatic and economic battling for soviet Russia. It brought the abandonment of the government monopoly of domestic trading and gradual reversion to capitalistic methods, tempered in such a way as to prevent dangerous splits in the small communistic group which dom mates the government. But the trade for 1921 has been many times what it was in 1920, and the reopening of shops on the old capitalistic basis has afforded an opportunity to sell in a legal way manufactured articles which are in great demand.
 Hampered by the triple desire to establish trade relations with import ant foreign powers, to protect the third internationale, whose head quarters are in Russia and to hold the Communistic party in Russia in- tact, Lenine and his associates were in precarious situation even before the drought produced widespread famine in the Volga area.
 Krassin managed to negotiate trade agreements with England, Ger many and several minor powers, but the. foreign trade commissions which came to, Russia failed to find the large supplies which bolshevist lead CTS had heralded throughout the world. The concession plan which Krassin and his associates had de- vised did not appeal to foreign in vestors. Confidence was lacking. Old l owner had 10 desire to invest more money in factories which had been 1 taken away from them and other for 1 eigners could not be induced to take l factories whose titles was clouded. | The bolshevist government lacked i the gold necessary to buy abroad and l could not find creditors. The gov 1 ernnlent announced it would make l import and export business possible 1 for individuals and corporations. un- l der government control. This be- l lated statement came in October Commissions are working out customs 1 tariffs and 1922 probably will see a | far larger export and import trade l if the government makes good its l promise to release it's grip on foreign ] business
 Leslie Urquhart, a. British mining ! 1ldit, WHO alIGlilpled lO ODld4ll ECi4- 1 sessions to work the mining proper | ties which he controlled <in Russia | before the bolshevist regime, said i l would be impossible for him to oper- ate in Russia until the government , stops the activities of the cheka. ol secret service, which he insists i: 1 stronger than the central govern l ment with which concessions are ne gotiated.
 The Cheka always has had an i'm. l portant part in directing foreigI
 trade arrangements. Many commis, sioners selected by the foreign trade
 council have not been permitted tt leave Russia. Foreigners are un
 able to understand the relations be
 tween the Cheka, which operates un
 der Umslicht, and the so-called cen
 traI government. It is not cleai
 whether there is a. dual government
 or whether the men who are general ly recognized as heads of the govern
 nent use the Cheka and thus avof,
 direct blame for acts which mee
 with public disapproval
 Official figures for the foreigl trade of Russia during the first min
 months of this year show that tn exports totalled rounghly 100,0 DO tons. These exports were chief raw materials or partly maHufac
 tured articles. such as timber, rail , way ties, leather. fur, tar, bristles hair, asbestos and graphite. Thirty three per cent of the exports went t England. Forty-si six per cent. chief
 wood and flax. went to Latvia fo exportation to various countries. Tn , value of goods exported abroad Sfror
 Jan. 1 until Aug. S1 was about S1,
 140,000