Evening star., 1924-08-02
BY SEYMOUR B. CONCER.

of the more prosperous business men
who emerge above the general level,
by arrest, exile and confiscation of
| property and with trying to tax all
the joy OF gain out Of the others. a
procedure not unknown In capitalist
countries since the war.
Advancing Rapidly Raekward.
The bolshevists, to ampfify the slang
phrase. are sitting" but they are
most decidedly not sitting pretty"
Before and SINCE Lenin's death they
have been mulling over the problem
Of checking the growing might of
] capitalism and developing the COM
munist substitutes for private initia-
tive and private capital. They are
advancing rapidly backward.
They have been trying to comply
with the warning of the Lenfn ora
Gle that bolshevism in Russia is
doomed unless 1t can sell itself to the
Continuing to fail. They have tried
to popularize their party with the
| Industrial workmen by drive for
ESQ. 700. ultimately 100000 or more,
new members from the factories.
They have merely succeeded in dilut-
ing the Intelligence OF the rank and
file by the infusion of the intellectual
aristocracy of the old guard.
Brains are needed for the task OF
perpetuating the rule Of bolshevist
minority over country predomi-
nantly out OF sympathy with bolshe-
vism. No new brains, no competent
leaders are coming up from the
ranks, the old guard is passing and
the whole swing Of Russia's popula-
! ton. business and agriculture, is
away from communism.
md
moment Of a violent overthrow of the
boishevist regime-rather Of a grad
ual ewamping OF bolshevism by a ris-
ing tide Of anu-bolshevist forces.
You hear a great deal outside of Rus
sia Of the activities Of monarchist
groups, Of the rivalries and prepara-
tiops of the Grand Duke Nicholas. the
Grand Duke Cyril or the bourgeois
leaders, but investigate inside Rus
sia and they do not seem to have the
traditional Chinaman's chance.
Rigid Censorship Of Press.
The only thing in the way Of a vio-
lent overthrow which has attracted
attention while 1 have been in Rus
sia has been the demand of radical
elements in the Communist party to
try to save bolshevism by the radi-
cal remedy OF again crushing private
business and by bidding for the sup
port Of the poorest classes of the
peasantry through a new land confis-
cation at the expense of their more
prosperous brothers. The proposals
were rejected by the party leaders
and at the party congress was more
apt to wreck bolshevism than to
save it.
In desperation, bolshevist leaders
are grasping at the old method of
making trouble abroad TO divert at
tention from a desperate situation at
home. They are also perSisting in the
old course Of trying to cover the
truth about bolshevism's position and
plans at home and abroad. by an
energetic censorship of press mes
sages and by sharply checking up on
the activities of correspondents
newspapers. All press kilograms
must be submitted in duplicate for
censorship. The mails are carefully
watched for press correspondence
For this reason il Is almost impos-
sible to tell the truth about Russian
conditions and unmask Developments
OF Russian policy menacing the out
side world through dispatches sent by
the ordinary routes. In Subsequent
been subjected to censorship, l shall
try to show the actual conditions in
Russia behind the tottering facade
built under the new economic policy
and. hrst OF all. to reveal some SEN
saGonal plans of the red army gem
eral staff to organize military up
heavals in the still un-bolshevized
countries of Europe and the Orient.
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