The Alaska daily empire., 1922-04-10
NEW EUROPEAN
 STATEHOOD IS
 NOW PROBABLE
Genoa Economic Conference Begins Session - Open-
 ing This Afternoon.
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ser,aetives of the rest of Europe.
 Fifteen Soviets

Fifteen Soviets
 The AM-Russian Central Executive Committee, meeting late in January elected slate of 15 prominent So- v.et statesmen, headed by Premier Lomine. giving them full plenipoten tiary powers in all matters affecting Russia to come before the conference Responsibility for this delegation fell uron Vice Chairman George Chitche 9n, Bolshevik Foreign Minister, how ever, when it was decided that Le- nine was too ill to leave Moscow. It also was said that fear of assasSina- tion if he left Russia played ar i'm nortant part in keeping the Bolshe- yik Premier within his own domains.
 Concern over their personal safety also was displayed by other mem bers of the delegation. particularly when they reached Riga, Latvia, late in March and learned that the ltal- ian government had assigned them to a villa at Rapallo, B miles out of Genoa. Chitcherin issued state ment crit.cising the Italians for thus isolating the Russians and calling attention to "the daily gauntlet ot B miles" which the delegates would have to run in motor ears under con ditions "especially convenient for as as5sination.
 Italy Feared Trouble .
 While the Italian government did z tn cn notes of protest to the Rapallo incl dent, it was explained to the Rus slans that Italy was having trouble with her own radicals and feared the presence of such prominent repre- sentatives of Bolshevistic principles might foment renewed anarchist ac- tivities. The section around Genoa and Milan, it was recalled, had been | hotbed of anarchy when Italian la tor uprisings resulted in the taking over of much of the nations indus try by the workers.
 ChitcheIln stands foremost above his colleagues of the Russian delega- tion as a statesman. He is man more than GO years of age, and be gan his diplomatic career during the Czarist regime. He was in England when the Bolshevik revolution startled Europe but returned to Rus sia in answer to an urgent call for Lenine, who promptly seized upon him as l'kely material for important dipqcmatic work then in hand.
 important Member
 Next to Chitcherin, perhaps the most important member of the group is Leonid Krassin, Bolshevik Minis ter of Foreign Trade, who was op- posed to Bolshevism in 1917 but joined the Communist party after Lenine's victory. His first assign ment, that of organizing the trans portation systems of Russia, ended in utter failure but his efforts along other lines. particularly in securing a trade agreement with England were more successful. He is A years old, an electrical engineer by pro fession and has been referred to as the only real business man in the Soviet government.
 Adolph Jcffe, "signer of peace treaties" headed the Soviet dolega- ton which carried on the long peace negotiations with Poland during the fan and winter of 1920-2t He goes 10 Genoa as Premier of Soviet Fur kestan. He was born in the Crimea, of Jewish parents, 45>years ago. His father accumulated a fortune as car rier of the mails in road wagons be fore the days of railroads.
 Lett Is Delegate
 Dr. Jacob JansOn, who will repre- sent the Soviet Far Eastern Repub- lie. is Lett. considered obedieat to the Central Executive Committee. He was sent to Chita to replace NJ. Krasnachekov after the latter had been there six months and developed tendenc4es which the Soviet govern ment considered too independent and also too favorable to the United States. He formerly resided in New York under the name of Robinson
 Alexander Shliapnikcff, Soviet Com missioner of Labor and an old lead CT of the Petrograd labor movement. is a metal worker. and one of the three trade union leaders appointed fo the delegation, He is well known