The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-11-27
SAYS RUSSIA SOON
BE ON FEET AGAIN
Former Hungarian Communist Leader
Declares Country Will Take Place
Once More Among Wealth
Producing Nations.
lsy rhe AssoeIated Pressl

MOSCOW, Nov. 26.-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,
lis active in the Third Internationale
and is well thought of in the councils
of the big Five" who control affairs in
Russia, namely, Lenine, Trotzky, Kam-
iniev, Djerzinsky and Boukharin.
1t will be recalled that Bella Kun
was head of the communist government
| 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 wreck
age 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, but it is
evident that the new economic policy
viii succeed. Russia will come back
in four or five years.
You have just been through Russia.
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 educated, and that is
wealth. too.
Surely, such a country should have
a better chance of repaying foreign in
vestments than the bankrupt countries
of western Europe lacking RlIssia's re-
sources.
"The government here is finished
with revolutions and is growing more
stable and will and can protect foreign
investments. Industrial and social rev
olutions may come elsewhere but we
are through with them.
Communism has not failed. Until
now. we were running 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 industries, and in
the end will absorb all but the smaller
ones. That doesn't mean there isn't
room for foreign concessions. Russia
is so big.
1--WE are not getting around to a
democratic government like that of the
United States. We are doing better.
We are working to hberate the work
ers and try to prevent their exploita-
ton.
I'm considering business hazards
with Russia, let the American business
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 extend far
into next year, partly because of the
lack Of seed grain, which the soviet
government can't provide in sufficient
quantities, partly due to the hazards of
weather. He is pushing the plan of an
international 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 fam
inc charity would buy these bonds, in
the hope of their redemption five or
ten years hence, when the Russian
has recovered its financial
credit.