The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-04-15
EXPERTS SEE LITTLE
ADVANCE in RUSSIA
Measures Recommended by Al
lies Only Intended to Be
Temporary.
MOSCOW NOW DESPERATE
Bolsheviki Sincerely Anxious
to Get Recognition and
Begin Trade.
MOSCOW NOW DESPERATE

Special Cable to THE New YoHK HERALD.
Copyright, 1879, by THE New YORK HERALD.
GENOA, April IA. The non Boil
shevist point of view was obtained by
THE NEW YORK HERALD correspondent
to-day from some of the highest nom
Russian members of the political or
Commission No. /. The French, Brit
ish and Italian delegations have been
accurately informed on present con-
ditions in Russia, as one of the ablest
English Consuls, speaking Russian
and great expert on Russian affairs,
expert staff; and the Italians and the
French similarly have gained expert
information there. One of these ex-
perts left Moscow only a month ago.
These men are not -Bolshevist,
but are out for the hard facts, and all
are anxious for some arrangement
with Russia. They admit the Cheka
police organization has been abolished,
but they say a similar organization
with different name las replaced IL.
They also admit that Nikolai Lenine
dropped Communism overheard year
ago. but they say he has a rope tied
to 1t and will try to haul it aboard
again at the first opportunity.
Yet the experts doubt he can do so,
once capitalism is re-established and
foreigners enter Russia in large num-
hers. Hence they favor the recognition
OF Russia on the basis OF the allied ex-
perts' report, which they defend. They
think the extraterritoriality clause es-
sential. as otherwise foreigners will not
30 TO Russia or trade with Russia. The
experts in Genoa have no intention oc
penallzing Russia or reducing her to a
state of vassalage. but they realize that
there can be no good in recognizing
Russia IL foreign capital cannot have
access nor commerce be resumed.
De Fncto Recognition.
Great Britain recognized Russia de
facto year ago and the British Gov
ernment allowed manufacturers to trade
there; but the manufacturers did not
take advantage of their opportunity.
owing to a want of confidence. Even
France and America placed no obstruc-
llOU III the way their NATIONALS,
trade did not materialize.
Extraterritoriality and other measures
are meant to be only temporary, as 1t
is distinctly stated in the allied experts
report. The Bolsheviki ignore that inn
portant point. The measures are only
probationary. If Russian conditions are
as excellent as the Ukrainian Premier
Rakowsky says, then those temporary
regulations are unnecessary and must
soon expire VI. Rakowsky complai ined
that the financial measures were impos-
sibly severe; but he forgot that they can
not operate for many a year. as at
present Russia can pay nothing.
Looking at IL from the Russian point
of view. the experts here say the best
thing for the Bolsheviki to do Is to ac-
cept the report in principle and thereby
gain breathing space of several years.
enabling them to grow strong. providing
non-recognition is the only cause OF
their weakness AS for the Bolshevist
argument. that confiscations by their
Cheka and the economic and social
chaos a year ago were due to war
conditions which affected other coun-
tries in the same way. the experts
find IL dishonest because while other
new republics took normal social at
titude Russia deliberately adopted an
extreme communist program with a
dictatorship OF the rroletarlat which
made the evils incidental elsewhere an
essential part OF the Bolshevist gov
ernmental system.
War measures IN England were i'm
cident to the war and therefore tenn
porary: but the war measures in Rus
sia were the very basis OF Lenine's
policy i'm 1918. AS for propaganda, the
experts do not think that Tchitcherin
came to Genoa for propaganda pur-
poses only. They think that Moscow's
position is desperate and that the Boil
sheviki are sincerely anxious to get
recognition and to begin trade. The
experts no longer are afraid OF propa-
ganda. as IL is neutralized by the plain
fact of the extreme misery OF Russia
and the utter failure of the communist
experiment.
Little Improvement Seen.