The New York herald., 1922-07-30
Fchitcherin Resumes Sway
and Does Not Speak With
Litvin6ff.
IODERATES MAKE GAINS
domestic Conflict Centers
About New Economic
Policy.

Special Cable to THp,NEw YORK HERALD. 4
opuiglt, 1923, by THE New YORK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau
Berlin. July 20.
There is a conflict inside the Com
hunist party which threatens to split
be Soviet Government. The failures
the Bolsheviki at Genoa and The
Hague have aroused the reddest in the
fganization to bravado and menaces
gainst capital, a method which the
hoderate Communists deplore. A typi-
al instance of this difference of opin-
pm IS the fact that George Tchitcherin
nd Maxim Litvinoff are not on
peaking terms.
Litvinoff in his negotiations made a
luff, but did not put the cards on the
hble In time to win anything, while
chitcherin remains an advocate of
Fss spectacular and more diplomatic
hethods.
Radicals Nofsiest.
Although the violent radicals Of Carl
adek's stamp are making the most
oise, Tchitcherin has the reins again
? Soviet foreign affairs while in home
hairs Rykow and Kameneff. who are
hoderates, still keep valin in the minor
y.
' That this inner conflict is paralyzing
Pie authority of the Soviet Government
indicated by the uprising of the work.
|rs In the Ural Mountains and by the
losing down of large number of Soviet
rQyincial administrative bureaus :.
The domestic conflict still centers
round the new economic policy. The
|solsheviki admit that they are in a.
iientna. They fear to admit foreign
iapital freely, but concede that they
lannot repair Russian finances and in
ustry without the assistance Of capt.
bal.
Without Lenine the Bolsheviki do not
|tick together" Alexander Kerensly,
[ormer Premier, who recently returned
rom Russia, told THE NEW YORK
HERALD correspondent. Formerly Lenine
tuled with an iron hand. He found three
factions Of little men each struggling to
get control
There is the Trotzky- -Bucharine -Radek-
Pinowieff faction which is disappointed
Pver not getting easy money from for
Eorld and is shouting for a world revo-
tuition. These men are exploiting the
long trial of political prisoners In order
30 arouse class hatreds in Russia. They
have antagonized the last outsid labor
fircles which otherwise would have been
Feady to aid the Soviet Government.
They hope to strengthen their own POSI-
kion through national agitation and are
falking war against Poland and Ru-
mania.
To the opposite extreme faction belong
Rykow, an able economist but no fight
kr: Krassine, Tchitcherin and Karachan.
Fhey wanted further compromises at
|senoa and The Hague and still hope
through particular negotiations to at
tract foreign capital to Russia. They
oppose the persecution of political pris-
Pners and would eliminate terrorization.
rhey are now supporting the introduc-
lion of parliamentary system in
Russia and are in favor Of making
Lenine Chancellor with an inner execu-
live Cabinet and a large Soviet council
|imilar to a house of representa- lives.
intermediate Groups.
Then there are various intermediate
Eroups. notably the workers who resent
he Soviet Government domination over
labor but who do not want return Of
(he capitalistic system. When Mcsnie-
|low, their leader who killed Prince
Michel, protested against this domination
BIT secret convention Of the Soviet
Government recently in the name Of the
workers. he could not get a hearing be-
cause Soviet officials remarked cynically :
''You are representing a class which Is
ceasing to exist. We are proletarian
pnly in name because the proletariat is
finished"
The general impression is that the
have taken control
more in appearance than In reality. be-
cause the radicals are the most out
spoken and dominate the apathetical
Communists.
The effect of 1t all Is a rapid economic
collapse and the Soviet Government is
leaving its own provincial officials to
shift largely for themselves. AS a result
the Communist Capitalization is rapidly
falling into decay and the provinces are
slowly resuming their old communal or
ganizations.