The Cordova daily times., 1922-12-02

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 bates in the Reichstag. He has for
 years been the. pioneer exponent of Ia project for such a close, interde-
 pendent linking of the German,
 French and English industries as
 would. in his opinion, be the most
 effective step toward . conciliation
 of Europe and would eliminate all
 danger of future wars. Rechberg. who, incidentally, Is a sculptor of note, is considerable power in German industry and commerce. He has incurred the enmity cl many of
 his countrymen by his Francaphile views, which have been violently at. tackled by the bitter enders" in the
 Reichstag. A close friend and ad- wiser of Ludendorff, Rechberg has l for a long time urged joint
 German-Allied military campaign to
 overthrow Soviet Russia.
 By ARNOLD REcHBERG BERLIN, Dec. "A leader of the
 English steel industry said to me
 a few days ago:
 "The Bo1shevists are stupid. For sixteen months the representatives
 of the Soviet government have nego- tiated with me about contract. When the contract was finally con cluded 1t proved absolutely unful- fillable, so that the Soviet repre- sentatives themselves annuHed it, under all sorts of pretexts. Peo-
 pie who waste their time for six teen months in order to make a futile and unfulfillable contract must
 be stupid"
 I replied: "The Soviet govern
 ment pursues one aim, namely, to gain time. That is the all-overshad- owing motive in all their economic negotiations with the European pow CTS. European industrials, such as the captains of the English steel in dustry, are anxious to do business
 with the Soviet government on the basis of those economic negotiations. If the Soviet government negotiates with the English steel industry about contracts that are in reality impracticable it gains time. And the English steel industrials do not
 get the business.
 "The Soviet government, therefore, has achieved what it wanted-+and 1 the English steel industrials, have failed. Consequently it is not the
 Soviet government that is stupid but
 the English steel industrials.' Political, Not Economic, Aim
 The Soviet Government of Mos
 COW, which is holding the unfortu-
 nate Russian people in leash solely by military force and terror, has no real interest whatever in the actual reconstruction of Russia; on the
 contrary only the misery and ex- haustion of the Russian people se- cure to the Moscow usurpers the maintenance of their domination over Russions become slaves.
 If the Russian people had a
 chance to recover the possibility is that the Soviet government would
 be toppled, and the Moscow chief tains know full well that in that
 case every one of them would be
 torn to pieces by the vengeance of tEa people.
 The Soviet government has ruined
 Russia completely, and just as long as this tremendous realm remains in their power the gigantic Russian productive and receptive area is eliminated from European business and economics. Since Russia before l the war furnished great portion of foodstuffs which Central and West
 ern Europe needed for it's industrial workers, it follows that the elimina' | ton of the Russian exports neces- sarily results in increasing need in
 Europe. This need becomes the
 more urgent the longer Russia is
 eliminated from the worlds markets. Lowering Europe's Resistance l Furthermore, the. more the need
 grows the more susceptible will the
 peoples of Central and Western Eu-
 rope become to Bolshevistic propa'
 ganda Besides, the Soviet govern,
 ment can send it's agents masked as plomatic protection into the Euro
 pean countries in order to stir the working masses to join the Bolshe- vistic revolution.
 ! All this increases the prospects of