The log cabin Democrat., 1922-04-10
RUSSIANS ARE FOCUS
 OF WORLY INTEREST
(By the Associated Press


 Genoa, April 10.-None of the more l than 1000 persons who will sit as delegates, advisors and experts in the 1 Genoa economic conference which | opens here today will command great 1 CT public interest than the small group of men representing Russia.
 While prominent statesmen, diplo- mats and political leaders of almost every other European country are well known to the average reader for the reason that they have partici- pated in numerous assemblies and Alterations, the Russians are meeting for the first time since 1917, with representatives of the rest of Europe.
 The all-Russian central executive committee, meeting late in January, elected slate of 15 prominent Sov jet statesmen headed by Premier Lenine, giving them full plenipoten- tiary powers in all matters affecting Russia to come before the conference. responsibility for this. delegation fell upon vice chairman George Chitch- erin, Bolshevik foreign minister, however, when it was decided that Lenine was too i'll to leave Moscow. It also was said that fear of assas- sination if he left Russia played an important part in keeping the Bol- shevik premier within his own do- mains.
 Concern over their personal safety also was displayed by other members of the delegation, particularly when they reached Riga, Latvia, late in March and learned that the Italian government had assigned them to a villa at Rapallo, 35 miles out of Ge- noa. Chtcherin issued a statement criticising the Italians for thus iso- lating the Russians and calling atten- 1 ton to "the daily gantlet of 35 niles which the delegates would have to run in motor cars under conditions especially convenient for assassina- tion."
 Chitcherin stands foremost above his colleagues of the Russian delga- | tion as a statesman. He is man more than 60 years of age, and be- gan his diplomatic career during the Czarist regime He was in England when the Bolshevik revolution start led Europe but returned to Russia in answer to an urgent call from Lem inc, who promptly seized upon him as likely material for important diplo- matic work then in hand.
 Next to Chitcherin, perhaps the most important member of the group is Leonid Krassin, Bolshevik minister of foreign trade, who was opposed to Bolshevsm in 1917 but joined the Communist party after Lenine's vic tory. He is 45 years old, an electrical engineer by profession and his been re- refferd to as the only real business man in the soviet government.
 Adolph Joffe, "signer of peace treaties" headed the Soviet delegation which carried on the long peace nego- tiations with Poland during the fall and wined of 1920-21. He goes to Genoa as premier of soviet Turkestan. He was born in the Crimea, of lavish parents, ID years dSO. HIS IdIIlel dC- cumulated fortune as carrier of the mails in road wagons before the days of railroads. Dr. Jacob Janson, who will represent the soviet Far Eastern Republic, is a Lett, considered obedi- ent to the central executive commit tee He formerly resided in New York under the name of Tobinson.
 Alexander Shliapnikoff, soviet com missioner of labor and an old leader of the Petrograd labor movement, is metal worker, and one of the three trade union leaders appointed to the delegation. Following his trade of metal worker, he lived in the United States, London and Sweden, return ing to Russie sometime during the war.
 Christian Rakovsky, president of the Ukraine republic, Rumanian Jew was expelled from his country as Socialist agitator and went to Rus