The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-08-21


plete picture OF the situation there
than has come By cable:
By n. r, KNICKERBo CKER
International News Service
MOSCOW, July 29.-As-
founded by the discovery that
a group of prominent Com
munists had met in the woods
near Moscow to conspire
against the governing au-
thorities Of their own party,
the all-union Communist
party is facing today the
most serious internal crisis in
its history.
Split Among Communists
At the same time, the Soviet
government, Communist from top
to toe, is bordering the extraordi-
nary fact that the Third Interna-
tional, composed entirely Of Com
munists, has begun to behave in
Russia as it has always behaved
in capitalist lands. It has di-
rected its efforts toward the over
throw of the constituted authori-
ties.
For Gregory Zinovieff, chairman
OF the executive committee OF the
Comintern, was held responsible for
the now famous Green Congress. =
as the conspiratorial meeting in
the woods is called. and for the
numerous acts Of disloyalty to the
all-union communist party central
committee which his followers com.
mitted befope> the Green Congress-
was held and raided by the &c.
P. u" successors to the famous
"Tcheka."
There in the depths Of the forest,
all the dlsgruntled elements in ths
communist party gathered to debate
ways and means.
II 1t was not a preparation for q
coup d'etat, it had all the ear.
marks.
Chief orator Of the evening was
Michail Michailovitch LasheVlrcb
member of the central committee
of the party, former commander
of the red forces in Siberia, ali
until that evening, assistant coca.
missar Of war in the Soviet union.
United in the ranks of his listen
ers were representatives OF the
most diverse elements in the party
most of them with nothing in com.
mon but the desire to overthrow the
dictatorship Of the central SOM.
mittee dominated by Joseph Stain,
it's general secretary.
If Trotsky was not there, he was
at least numerously represented.
If Zinovieff was not there, 1t was
because no felt that his lieutenants
could represent him ably.
Kamenev. smarting under the ig-
nominy of his recent demotion, had
faithful followers who knew thu
password.
Actual organizer of the "Green
Congress-" was Comrade Belenky.
member Of the central executive
committee of the Comintern.
Virtually all those present held
more or less important places in the
Third International.
News of the Green Congress-
came like a bombshell to the old
evolutionaries.
Persistent rumor, which Is not de-
MED by the logic of events, has 1t
in Moscow that the death OF Felix
Dierjinski. chief of the &c. P. u, d"
vas brought on by excitement over
the crisis he knew his party was
facing.
1t is at any rate the actual truth
that Djeriinski died Of heart failure
not long after delivering a passion
ate speech appealing for unity with
in the party.
More radical friends of Stain ad:
vocated the immediate election from
the party of Zinevieff, Lashevitch.
and all those concerned.
But there was too much danger
that Zinc\ Jeff. with his prestige OF
long years Of close personal asso
citation with Lenin. might form
movement outside the
r artv. Moderate counsels prevailed.
What the ultimate outcome may
be for the insubordinate com
munists. and for the Communist par
ty itself, only the future Will re-