Norwich bulletin., 1922-03-11

An Associated Press despatch from Il
Moscow. dated February q, states
that $50 long as the famine starves
| to death the peasants and the remain
ing bourgeisie, though 1t be on 8, scale |
of millions, the Soviet leaders are I'M |
touched and rather indifferent. But the /
famine is now slowly and surely en- |
| crUaching on and encircIing their /
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Soviet rep
lresentatiyes from every part of Rus
STA, sent to get food, report that there !
lis less and less to be had, that be-
ginning with March the favored Red
army will begin to starve, and that
each succeeding month will be worse
This explains Trotsky,s statement, re-
4 ported in an Associated Press des-
patch from Moscow, dated February
"a, which quoted him as saying that
\ IF the coming Genoa conference
il does not do something for Russia, q.
e., for the Bolsheviki A. 81, 1t might
4 be necessary to tip the balance with
6 blood, perhaps this coming spring"
Now, what are the worlds states
men going to do to oppose this belli-
4 gerent desperate spirit? It is clear that
inasmuch as the Russian situation af-
/, fects the ertireworld, measures must be
taken to settle the Russian problem.
J But, will the meeting with the Boil
/ sheviid settle it? Will a loan to the
/ Bolshevist rulers settle it, Will the
; continuation of the Bolsheviki in pow
) er, strengthened by recognition and
financial support, settle it? No! It
). is impossible to help Russia unless,
/ first of all she helps herself. No eco
: nomic cooperation with Russia Is pos
: sible, no trade, no loans are possible,
unless production is reeStablished in
Russia. This truth, expressed in Sec
5 rotary Hughes note Of March rs, 1921
must be repeated again and again,
; every time the Russian problem, in
it's present aspect, rises before the
e world.
8 The new Bolshevist policy, the con-
: cessions they have given, is not suf-
t ficient for the reestablishment of the
: productive processes in Russia The
:. above quoted Associated Press des-
4 patch shows clearly that Russia is
speedily approaching the economic
collapse for long time predicted by
d all careful observers of Russian af-
l. fairs An Associated Press corespon-
g dence from Moscow, dated January
r Is and printed in The New York Eve
: ming Post Of February 25 this year,
said that "the new economic policy
is falling far short of expectations
7 and explained that domestic trade is
not entirely free and that the man
ufacturerS ara unwilling to resume
their old work under Government con-
II ceSsioTtsl Even property owners, or
: rather former property owners, are
Il unwilling to take back their apartment
houses and hotels under the proposed
Isl concession PLAN" In the same Asso-
L ciated Press correspondence we fine
IS also the statement that Z" engineers
"a scientists, bankers, teachers and mer-
Is chants are greatly needed" and thai
4 the lack of intellectual forces is 81
u acute that Lenine has repeatedly
. stressed the desira bility of attracting
n back to Russia the 100000 Russian.
III who have fled to other countries anC
u represent the cream of Russian in
y telligence."
1t is high time to come to practica
y measures which would revive Russia
~ instead of merely acknowledging tn
N 'desira bility" of such measures. VIVA
T. are Lenine and his friends ready t,
~ do, in order to make the resurrection
~ ~ of Russia possible? Are they reall.
:" prepared to abandon Bolshevism, t.
= y 'reestablish property rights in the in
~ dustries and to stop the persecution
and destruction of the Russian intelli
Is gentsia, the brain of Russia, withou
~ which her body is helpless? If sc
50 they must do it before the conference
ye as a proof that they are sincere in tn
X desire to help the reconstruction o
+ Russia, and thereby the reconstruction
:, of Europe. Before any internationa
d; conference, at which the Russian prob
1 ~ lem could be discussed with an
~ chance for success, can take place
y the following conditions must be re
~ allied within Russia:
- /. The establishment Of a legal or
~ der that would protect and guaran
~ tee personal and property rights i
Russia. CAS- it was admirably state
~ in Secretary Hughes note of Marc
g. 20, 1921, production is conditione
a. upon the safety of life, the recogni
- ton by firm guarantees of privat
- property, the sanctity of contract an
H. the rights of free labor.").
- 3. Free elections to a Representative
e. assembly, which would lay the found
;fa alton for a government enjoyink tn
IF confidence of the people of Russi
10 The nations of the world cannot de;
p and cooperate with a government thu
~ does not possess sufficient stability
he Only when such changes are consu
- mated Ito use the expression fro
rn Secretary Hughes note), only then ca
al a common language be found betwee
he the Russian delegates and the outsit
as- world. Without such common lar
nm guage, the conference is useless, eve
i'm harmful upon the conditions as no
M proposed, the conference in Genoa
I'm a compromise with Bolshevism at IL
wa very moment when the Bolshevist r.
.bo gime is nearly its logical and newt;
ir- Bile end. All the latest events sho
he clearly that it must either abdica
Inc its power and disappear peacefully,
it will be forced out by the irresi
FOR tible laws of life. AS the above-quotj
his Associated Press despatch of Febr1
ith airy 81 states What may happen b
en- tween now and the summer mont
mr. is troubling the Soviet leaders If
m, big loan is arranged, the situation C;
emit be saved-H the Moscow leaders
not obtain outside help, they reali
vas that their power is doomed"
emf Moral encouragement and materi
YER help rendered the Bolsheviki at ii
ace nlment would prolong Russia's ago.
ian and, consequently, the world crisis.
in clear statement expressing readine
ind to help Russia under the Bolshevi
al reginne,-would shorten the Russi
ing crisis and would help to materiali
re, the much longed for era of polite
1ge and economical normally througho
not the world.