Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-11-24
Russia Will Regain
World Place Within
The Next Few Years

Moscow, Oct. 2S-(By a Staff Cor
respondent of The Associated 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 Interna :
tionale and is well thought of in the
councils of the Big Five" who con
troll affairs in Russia. namely, Len
inc, Trotzky, Kaminiev, Djerzinsky
and Boukharin,
1t will be recalled that Bella Kun
was head of the Communist govern
ment in Hungary for five months in
the spring and summer of 1919 and
had to flee when the Rumanian army
invaded the country and completed
the werckage 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. l am not speaking as
an official Of the Soviet republic, but
it is evident that the new economic
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 last free. They are being educat-
ed and that is wealth, too.
surely, such country should
have better chance of repaying for
eign investments than bankrupt
countries of western Europe lacking
Russia's natural resources.
1.-The government here is finished
with revolutions and is growing more
able and 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. I'm
til 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 control and own the great in
dustres. and in the end will absorb
all but the smaller ones. That does
MT mean there isn't room for foreign
concessions. Russia is so big.
I'VE arc 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.
In considering business hazards
with Russia. let the American bust
ness men remember that so far the
United States has obtained only nice
bits of paper. promises to pay from
France. England and Italy on the
huge sums loaned them"
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 the Soviet government can't
provide in sufficient quantities, part
~ due to the hazards of weather. He
is pushing the plan of an interna-
tional 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 one dollar up.
Bella Kun believes that persons
who might not otherwise subscribe to
famine charity would buy these
bonds, in the hope of their redemp-
ton, five or ten years hence, when
the Russian government has rccov-
cred it's financial credit.