Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-09-07
Country Is Fast Ap-
preaching Nor
NAL, He Declares.
Expects Era of
Peace Will F0ll0,u
Army Cut.
BY GEORGE WHITE.

BY Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News.
Copyright. 1872.
BERLIN, September THE crops
in Russia are fine this year. live
stock has increased greatly in num-
Der and the Russian peasant is sing
ing once more as he works in the
fields. according to Leonid Krassin.
the peoples commissar for foreign
trade, who has just come back from
a trip to Moscow. In an interview to-
day Krassin explained how much bet
ter everything looked in Russia, so
that it might even be said that con-
ditions were gradually approaching
the normally Of pre-war days. He
also called attention to the fact that
a disarmament conference had just
been opened in Moscow for the pur-
pose of reducing the red army. "hich
now numbers only 100000 men:
"Russia's new policy includes no
war plans" NJ. Krassin declared en-
phatically "All reports ascribing TO
us such intentions are nonsense. Our
disarmament meeting VIII be some
thing like the Washington confer
ence. We have invited all nations
with whom we have resumed trade
relations, but. personally, l doubt
whether any of them will send dele
gates. At present We are bending
all our energies toward reconstruct
ing the country.
people abroad do not grasp the
full meaning. of our new policy, as
they cannot understand how we nave
cached a compromise between private
and state ownership. and they think
we have abandoned communism.
That is wrong.
Peasants Satisfied.
Pure communism proved imprac-
ticable because the peasants. VINO
make up so per cent of Russia popu-
lation. wanted private ownership.
Under the compromise railroads.
rapftha, fuel and other vital Industries
remain state property and are operat-
ed by the government. The land'
however, belongs to the peasants. VINO
are no longer compelled to give part
of their crops to the state, me
the whole they seem satisfied: and as
they are strongly represented In the
executive committees everywhere
they are the real masters OF RUSSIA
You may call this new policy re-
turn to capitalism, but our capitalism
is very different from that in the
bourgeois states, where a small
minority controls everything. In
Russia the masses are the dictators
and the majority of workers are
capitalists"
When asked whether the recent ex-
pulsion of hundreds of intellectuals
was part of the new policy M.
Krassin replied that there was a sur
plus of brains in Russia and that
these explosions were part OF his
country'S answer to the campaign
against Russia abroad as result OF
the trial and condemnation OF the
social revolutionaries-
we make it a rule" he said. when
foreign countries try to bring press
ure to bear on us in internal questions
to reply by hitting. II we are hit we
reply with explosions"
German Treaty Fails.
In discussing the general political
situation NJ. Krassin said that Ger
many had greatly disappointed Russia
since the treaty was signed at Rapallo.
No real work had yet been accom-
plished by the German financial and
Industrial enterprises which had been
granted far;:reaching concessions in
was not wholly due to lack of good
faith but to a shortage of money. the