The New York herald., 1922-02-05
Russian Newspapers Regard
Invitation as Great Vic
tory for BOlsheviki.
LEADING TO RECOGNITION
Will Ask for Money, Property
and Territory Taken From
Their Country.
~ CAPT. FRANCIS McopLLAcH.


Special Cable to THE NEW York HERALD
Copyright. ,sas. by THE NEW York HERALD.
REvAL (via London) Feb. 4-The
Bolsheviki, feeling that they must set
a solid front Of Communists and work.
men against capitalists at Genoa, have
launched an attempt to unite the vari-
Gus Communist groups throughout
the world. They aim during February
to bring about two great Communist
conferences preliminary to the Genoa
conference, one in Paris and the other
in Moscow.
They will attempt to combine the
adEerents of all three Internationales
tho First, the Second and a half and
the Third--to line up with the Bolshe-
Wiki. the British Independent Labor
party, American as well as French
and Italian Communists, and even
the Amsterdam trade unionists whom
Lenine used to denounce as yellow,
but wEo recently sent delegates to
Moscow in connection with famine
relief.
To Unite All Communists.
The plan IL to bring together the Ill
defined Communist groups of the world
30 as to stand together against capital
Ism at Genoa, but according to advices
here, where Litvinoff has been working
to bring this about, the scheme Is not
likely to succeed
The Bolsheviki, however, assume a
very high tone in regard to the Genoa
conference, the official newspapers in
sisting that Soviet Russia is not going
as beggar. The Isvestia says 1.-THE
Soviet representatives at Genoa must
have the same rights as other delegates.
They must be allowed to advance propo-
sitions and objections when they see
fit"
All newspapers profess to regard the
invitation to the conference and its pos
slpillties as a great victory for the
Soviet Government. equivalent, in fact,
to de facto recognition of the Russian
Republic. NJ. Stekloff says the invita-
tion is the first undeniable moral VIC
tory on an international scale gained
by the Soviet Government. He calls 1t
recognition by the Allies of the stability
and durability of the Soviet and the
abandonment OF direct armed interven-
ton as we'll as recognition of the eco
nomc indispensability in the interest of
al Europe OF arrangements with Russia
Many BoIshevist Demands.
The Bolshevilxi are convinced that the
Genoa conference must logically lead
to recognition. On their side, however.
they will ask for a good deal of money
and property belonging to the Russian
state which is now abroad. This in
cludes some hundreds of millions of
rubles and also Russian warships and
merchantmen which The French and
English and the Wrangel expedition pill
fAred Tbau hot
question which must come up is the
standing of the White Russians who are
now refugees and in many cases are
plotting against the Soviets. The Boil
eheviki insist that foreign countries can
not continue to shelter these or at least
cannot permit the continuance of counter
plots.
Still another important question will
bo the disposal of the vast territory
which several foreign States cut from
Russia. They say that the Rumanians
helped themselves to Bessarabia and
Japan grabbed the Siberian Pacific coast
and that they will ask Genoa what is
going to be done about It,
The Russians feel that they have a
strong card because recognition of Rus
sia is indispensable to any economic re-
construction of Europe and therefore
indispensable to the prosperity of the
allies.
Lenine's organ the Prada says that
the Communist motto at Genoa will be
be ready" for they regard the Genoa
conference as the only weapon of the
world capitalists in the fight against
the Soviets. 1t says that the delegates
must be strong in physical strength and
Soviet power and must disillusion the
capitalists OF the idea that communism
has weakened.
''Thc workers and peasants" II says,
must stand in a solid unbroken ring
around the banner of the Soviet. The
enemy counts on our internal dissension.
There must be no internal dissension."