Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-30
SOVIET MIGHT PAY
ON CZARIST DEBTS
Powers Must Make Loans to
Get Partial Refund, Says
Stain in Talk.
NJ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
MOSCOW. June 30.-JoSeph Stain S
record breaking Seven-hour speech be-
fore the Communist Party Congress- oc-
cupying 81 solid columns of newspaper
print yesterday has made him more
than ever the strongest political figure
In SOVIET Russia.
The speech, as printed, touched upon
three questions of vital international
interest and Importance which previous
summaries had failed to reveal. These
are cZarist debts. bolshevist propaganda
abroad and the Soviet policy respecting
minority races within the Union.
Concerning the czarist debts, Stain,
who never before spoke publicly on
this question, declared the Soviet gov
eminent is ready to pay part of these
debts If the powers holding such claims
are willing to advance credits to the
bolshevists, the government regarding
such part payments of czarist obliga-
tons as extra interest upon such credits
Stain doubtless had in mind the
claims of foreign corporations for prop
erty conflscated during the revolution
rather than the claims of foreign gov
ernments for unpaid loans.
Electric Firm Contract.
The American General Electric Co.,
for example, some time ago concluded
an agreement with the Soviet govern
ment whereby in return for a $25;0OO,-
600 credit advanced to the SovietS that
corporation receives in return, in addi-
ton to the regular interest, partial pay
ment of its claim against the bolshe-
visits for factories and other property
conhscated during the revolution.
RuSSia's Iron man" also made q
notable utterance respecting bolshevist
propaganda, which is being considered
abroad as a barrier against the estab-
hshment of normal relations between
Soviet Russia and "capitalistic coun-
tries" like the United States.
He made it clear that however much
the United States and other countries
dislike the Soviet system of agricultural
collectivization, determination of Ku-
laks, anti-religious propaganda and the
battle against counter-revolutioni
the bolsheviks would continue their ac-
tivfties undated in these directions.
because they represent the unalienable
right of the Russian workers and
peasants as embodied in the Soviet
constitution.
Firm for Constitution.
'Ths constitution" Stain added
must, and will be rigidly observed. In
order to forestaH the harmful effect of
bolshevist propaganda the capitalistic
cordons of wire entanglementS. IRA
ciously allowing Poland, Rumania and
Finland the honor of protecting these
entanglementS."
touching upon the question of Soviet
RuSs1a'S many minority racial elements
stain revealed to the lay reader for the
nrSG time the existence within and with
OUT the Communist party of q tendency
on the part Of certain groups to abolish
autonomous and federated national re-
puollcS and absorb them all into one
great single unified Russian state with
tne RUSSIAN tongue as the sole language.
All such 1nclinations, Stain declared
must De crushed as they constitute 4
dangerous form Of great Russian
eaiauvinism." Every one of the manv
minority races within the Soviet Union
@ emphasized, must continue to enioy
Sne privilege Of having its own dis.
snL language, culture, courts,
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