Evening star., 1927-03-31
DEMOCRATIC STATE
! ! SEEN FOR RUSSIA
Kerensky Holds Continuance
of U. S. Policy Will Aid
Nations Evolution.
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.
A democratic United States OF
Russia" liberated from the shackles
of Bolshevism, is definitely fore
shadowed by Alexander Kerensky
the first leader of post-czarist Russia
Assurances to that effect were left
with public men in Washington this
week by M. Kerensky, at the outset
of a series of conferences with IN
fiuential Americans in various parts
of the country. The young, some
what Mussolini-like Russian states
man has now visited New York and
Washington. During the month OF
April he will go to Boston, Philadel-
phia, Pittsburgh, Detroit and Chicago,
meeting in those cities men and
women of affairs who are interested
In the development of Russia along
truly constitutional lines.
In washington NJ. Kerensky, who
had the advantage of the companion
ship of Boris Bakhmeteff, the hlghly-
esteemed "Kerensky ambassador here
for three years, saw cabinet oihcers,
distinguished members of the Senate
and House, foreign diplomats and
many other leaders of Capital life.
Saw Many DlgnltarleS.
Secretary Hoover, Speaker Long
worth, Senators Walsh (Montana), and
Swanson, Nelson T. Johnson, chief
of the Far Eastern division of the
State Department; NJ. Paul Claudel,
the new French Ambassador; Eugene
Meyer, jr., of the War Finance Cor
poration; former Ambassador David
Jayne Hill and Breckenridge Long, for
mer Assistant Secretary of State, were
some of the dignitaries with whom
Kerensky conferred. Senator Swanson
and Senator Walsh are members of
the Senate committee on foreign af-
fairs.
The Russian visitor tells everybody
that he came to America to answer
questions. He weathered in Washing
ton a seige of heckling that must have
reminded him of his most strenuous
days in the Duma. Though he had to
speak through an interpreter-himself
knowing no English-Kerensky had
little trouble in supplying all jnforma-
tion desired. He finds our people keen
tor light and leading on Russian mat
ters.
Holds BOlshevism Doomed.
The former premier deferred his trip
to America, which he had long
planned, until he could bring reliable
assurances that the Soviet strangle-
hold is relaxing. Kerensky believes
these can now be safely given. He
does not prophesy when the Bolshevist
autocracy will crumble. Whether it is
destroyed Immediately or within two
or three years, he asserts, is not essen
tial. The important thing, Kerensky
insists, is that Bolshevist Russia is
doomed. A process of steady ''evolu-
ton" out of present conditions into
normal, democratic conditions is TAX
ing place, he says. The new United
States of Russia which Kerensky en-
visages, will be found on system of
federated States like this country, with
the people ruling through truly rep
resentative government. The tyran-
nical dictatorship of the proIe-
tariat"-which Kerensky defines as mi
nority rule by handful of Commu-
mist city wage-earners in industry
will give way to a regime of universal
suffrage throughout the Russian
realm. The new order will have as a
basic foundation the sanctity of pri-
vate property, as it exists elsewhere in
the world.
The United States resolute refusal
to recognize Soviet Russia is consid-
cred by Kerensky an undoubtedly vital
factor in the shaping of Russia s fu-
ture destinies. He thinks Washington
must be encouraged to maintain its
stand by the dismal experience Euro.
pean governments have had as a re-
suit Of their recognition of Moscow.
kerencky was interrogated pretty
vigorously in Washington about boil
sheyist intrigues in China. He in
sists that Red Russia's association
with the Cantonese Nationalists
amount TO an alliance"
Cites kemal's Case.
The unofficial Russian press claims
this categorically, and Kerenskys own
private opinion corroborates it. He
shares Senator Borah's view, however.
that Nationalist China will not be
swallowed up by Soviet Russia. He
believes the Cantonese will be found
using Bolshevist money, munitions.
military instructors and political ad.
vice-as Mustapha Kemal and the
Turks did-only so long as these SIN
ews of war and diplomacy serve
China's purposes.
Speaker Longworth asked Kerensky
II he enjoyed being boss" of Russia
for while. Kerensky shook his
head sadly and calculated an unmis-