Evening star., 1933-09-03
STAIN ADVISER FORESEES
FAILURE FOR N. r. A. PLAN
Karl Radek Says Profit System in
America Will Bring Collapse
to New Deal.

to what he has contributed. Com
munism will come later when every
man contributes up to his capacity and
is rewarded according to his needs"
"It's too bad your country has no
definite foreign policy" was one of
Radek's comments. you were at first
in favor Of the Versailles treaty, then
you were against the Versailles treaty,
and you also were in favor of revising
the Versailles treaty. You at no time
showed q disposition to stick to one
policy"
Expects United States Recognition.
The same day I saw Radek I also
talked with an Official attached to the
Soviet governments foreign Office. This
man, who wished not to be directly
quoted, was extremely frank in ex-
pressing his hope that the United
States Government would officially rec
ognize Russia.
"Of course, 1t will finally come" he
said, smiling. Russia has much pa
tience and can wait. For that matter
he added. you know what our foreign
commissar, Ltvinov, said-that Russia
Is already recognized, just as the sun,
moon and stars are recognized. That
is, 1t exists. It has existed for IS
years. Russia is here and other coun-
tries are here. We must recognize one
another, especially In important ques-
tions Of policy.
Il can't understand what Americans
mean when they speak of wanting
more time to study Russia and decide
II recognition is desirable. Why, more
literature about Russia is published
In n Ior in, at1,
foreign land, and 80 per cent of our
tourists are Americans"
The Soviet government has kept the
terms OF every agreement it ever
signed" he added, land has discharged
all its obligations to the letter-even
though to do so has often imposed a
serious strain"
mentioned the feeling America has
about supposed Russian Communistic
propaganda in the United States.
But" said the Russian, that prop
aganda issue has been successfully
solved in Great Britain, France and
now in Spain. These nations, much
closer geographically to Russia, might
supposedly be most suspicious. But
the United States, fartheSt away, IS
most seluctant to grant recognition"
Isn't the Third International def
nitely a propaganda organization?" I
asked.
But the Third International is not
a part Of the Russian government" was
the reply. I'VE would be delighted if
they moved their headquarters from
Moscow to Berlin, New York, or almost
any place, so long as it is outside of
Russia"
I told him many Americans keenly
resent the confiscation of private prop
erty belonging to Americans at the
time of the overthrow of the Russian
provisional government in the revolu-
ton of October, 1917.
Russia is prepared to pay private
owners OF property confiscated." my
Russian informant insisted. But, of
course. we would never consider pay
ing Czarist obligations"
Need Rail Equipment.
If recognition should come and you
should have sufficient credit in Amer
ica," I asked, what kind of goods from
America would be most in demand?"
We are in great need" was the re-
ply, "of all kinds of production ma
chinery, OF railway equipment Perhaps
transportation equipment is needed
most of all. We manufacture in Rus
sla only about twenty-five locomotives
a year, and eighteen of these go to re-
placement. That doesn't leave much
chance for expansion of transportation
facilities in the face of our vastly in
creasing requirements. We need trucks,
too, far more than we can manufacture.
II we had the credit we could use per-
hapS million motor trucks"
From another source it was learned
that Russia hopes at some time to buy
entire factories now lying idle in
that have been put
out OF use by consolidation in big in
oustr1es: She would buy the complete
mechanical equipment, lock, stock and
barrel. according to this informant