Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-25
RUSS DELEGATION
FEARS COMMUNISTS
BY EDWARD PRICE BELL

| Especial Cable to The Atlanta Journal and
| Chicago Daily News-Copyright. 1929
| LONDON, July 22.-Krass:n, Lit
vinow and other Bolshevist leaders
would move more rapidly toward the
point Of view Of western peoples If
they did not fear assassination. They
fear not only assassination but loss
of the influence of all such leaders
as themselves over the industrial
element. This situation, now fully
revealed to allied diplomats, is con-
sidered one of the chief stumbling
blocks in all Russian negotiations.
Concerning the peasants these
leaders feel no anxiety. Through
out the rural districts there is q
| strong feeling for private property.
Workers in the city, however, cling
| to the doctrine of naturalization.
They still believe everything that
was instilled into them in the first
days Of Leninism. Whoever advo-
Gates compromise with Capitalists"
the Russian city workers regard as
a traitor to the revolution and to
the cause Of Communism in general.
| For every such person the recog-
Krassinfi Litvinov and their as
sistants are not seeking martyrdom.
Moreover, they believe that Russia
must establish trading relations with
other countries. British statesmen
do not want these Russian leaders
assassinated. Lloyd George and his
| advisers see no hope of bringing
Russia back into the community Of
European nations within a measur-
able time without the assistance Of
those Russian leaders whom west.
ern statesmen have finally brought
to acknowledge the soundness Of
western social and political prin-
ciples.
In this fact lies the explanation
of the patience shown by informed
non-Russian public men toward the
official pretentions of the Bolshevist
leaders.
1t is known that these pretentions
are not to be taken at their face
value, and it is known that the Boil
shevist leaders are endeavoring by
easy stages to attract their indus
trial followers away from Communist
ideals to ideals compatible with a
resumption of friendly business and
Socialist relations between Russia
and the other nations Of the world
The present leaders Of republican
Germany are in much the same con
dition as are such Russians as Kras-
sin and Litvinov. They pursue what
they believe to be sound policy in
the face of the danger Of the as
sassination. DR.. Rathenau, the late
foreign minister, had no doubt that
he would be assassinated. But he
| was resigned to that fate. Shortly
before he was shot down he had a
| conversation with one of the high
er officials in London. There was q
hunted, fatalistic look in his eyes.
"They will kill me-" he said on
leaving at the end Of the interview.
| Nevertheless I must do my duty"
With this same British official
| Krassin recently had a talk, and in
his eyes, am told, was the same
hunted, fatalistic LOOK.
1--WE have got our followers in
the cities in a mood that makes
settlement with the non-Russian
world impossible" Krassin asserted.
"We must endeavor to change this
mood. Our difficulty is that we can
not make our people understand. If
we propose any practical course
| they suspect us of disloyalty to the
revolution and for traitors to the
revolution thew have OnlV one law "