The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-06-10
London Reports State Lenine
Will Not LiUe Another Month
By FRANCIS M'CULLAGH.


Copyright, 1929, bv THE New YORK HERALD
New York Herald Bureau.
London, June o.
1t is certain that Nikolai Lenine is
seriously i'll, but only the German
specialists who have flown several
times in the last two months from
Berlin to Moscow know how he is.
Thus far they have refused to speak.
The only news to be obtained here,
therefore. is indirect, from the Gov
ernments that keep some kind of rep
resentative in Moscow, and from the
social revolutionary organizations with
bureaus in London and Paris, which
generally are we'll informed as to
what happens in the Kremlin. These
sources of Information THE NEW York
HERALD correspondent has approached,
with the following results:
Lenine has been more or less i'll for
the last four months. residing most Of
the time in the outskirts of Moscow.
unable to transact business with for
eign representatives, to whom the peo-
tle's commissariat Of foreign affairs
have made no secret of the leaders,
jindisposition. His condition has now
reached such a point In physical
weakness that it is doubtful IL ne can
survive another month. The best
medical explanation Of his condition
is that his power of resisting disease
has been destroyed by continual over
work and anxiety, so that he falls
prey to any malignant germ that
comes along. and grows hopelessly
neurasthenfc.
No One to Replace Him.
Baikaloff, the social revolutionary
leader at present in London, says that
from accounts he has received here
Lenine certainly is dying. IF Lenine
dies there is nobody to replace him"
said Baikaloff. for intellectually he
towers far above all the other Boil
shevist chiefs. He has a prestige
among the peasants and workmen
such as no one else has. and he holds
the three different branches OF the
Communist party together"
8, Precisely what is the nature OIL
Lenine's complaint cannot be learned
Perhaps the doctors themselves do not
know. The Soviet chief is said to be
suffering with nervous breakdown,
with poisoning, caused by several bull
let's remaining in his body after the
last attempt to assassinate him, With
enteric disorders, with tumor Of tie
| or
several other diseases.
A British diplomatist with unusual
opportunities for knowing the true
state of affairs told THE NEW YORK
HERALD correspondent that Lenine's
health certainly improved after the
extraction of bullets from his body
about two months ago. But the d..
plomatist did not believe the theory
that the bullets had been poisoned.
and held that the good effect of their
removal was due simply to the inilu-
ence Of the operation upon Lenine's
imagination. The dictator. being in
very neurasthenic condition. had come
to believe that the bullets were the
cause of all his Illness so their ex-
traction eased him considerably.
No Weakening of His Will.
There has been no weakening Of
Lenines will power. However, or of
the cruel hardness which all along has
characterized this extraordinary man.
On March last, vixen he was quite
i'll and when he might have been ex-
pected on that account, especially IN
view of the impending conference at
Genoa, to say something soothing and
moderate, he came out with a speech
worthy of his most savage period.
when we were assailed." he said,
1--WE struck back, instituting terror
tkreefold terror. IL terror ever be-
comes necessary TO us in the future
we shall institute 1t again"
when Lenine goes" M. Baikaloff
said, "the Bolsheviki will quarrel
among themselves. None Of them
has Ills moral authority. None strikes
the popular Imagination in the same
way. After all, he was a Russian OF
noble family: and Trotzky is now the
only Jew in TIE council of the peoples
Commissaries (for Sverdloff of the
| Commissariat OF Ways and Communi-
cations Is only the assistant Conn
missary), and would find 1t difficult 10
! iii Lenine's place on account of his
race. For rrotzky, although eloquent
! and extremely active, is far below
Lenine as a ruler Of men, and his sue
cession to vacant throne would meet
the bitter opposition Of several otfer
commissaries as powerful as himself.
when Lenine fell Ill last autumn.
1.-THE central executive eAnzaittee de-