Evening star., 1934-05-06
Kerensky Laughs at Wits
Version of Roosevelt Aims
Former Russian Leader
Secs No Red Drift
in america.
Cites Preservation of
Political and Social
Liberties by U. S.
BY PHILIP CARR.

BY Radio to The Star.
PARIS, May 5.-The real Kerensky
laughed today in discussing the descrip-
ton of President Roosevelt as the
second Kerensky," in connection with
the investigation of DR.. william A.
Wirt's charges.
1t had astonished him, he said, to
hear that the Roosevelt Government
had been compared to his own in Rus
sia and that an attempt had been
made to find an analogy between
either the conscious aims or the un-
conscious tendencies of the United
States today and those Of Russia
in 1917.
Alexander Kerensky received me in
the Office of the -Bolshevist
Journal he has been editing In Paris,
but publication of which, he confessed
is now suspended because of lack of
capital.
Differences Cited.
MY government" said Kerensky,
who was prime minister of the Russian
provisional government from July to
October. 1917. was struggling under
war conditions of two kinds-civil war
and war against a foreign enemy,
for the Bolsheviks not only had the
support of certain internal revolu-
tionary forces, but that of the German
general staff.
Moreover, daring as some of the
social and economic experiments al
ready undertaken in the United States
may be, the boldest visionaries there
do not even contemplate the suppress
sion Of the political, social and per-
sonal liberties of the citizens, whereas
without the suppression of all three.
the Bolsheviks could not continue to
exist.
Again, the American experiments
are directed toward increasing the
internal purchasing power of the mass
OF the Nation. Bolshevism deliber-
ately destroys it. In America, the
whole movement tends to save the
farmer from ruin and to restore the
prestige of the agricultural interests.
In Soviet Russia, the whole move
ment tends to destroy the peasant.
compares Methods.
There is a chasm of difference
between Bolshevisk, which Is destroy
ing the whole economic structure and
bringing Russia back to the chaos
Of the seventeenth century. and the
American attempt to restore and
revive economic life. 1t is on the
economic side that the Russian
revolution differs fundamentally not
only from what is going on In
America, but from certain dictator
ships in Europe. The Italian Fascist
dictatorship, for instance, although it
has destroyed political liberty. has
carefully refrained from destroying
economic liberty.
1T is realized that there are today
100000 political prisoners in Russia.
mostly distributed over the enormous
wastes of Siberia, and although the
mortality rate is high among these
prisoners--consisting, be it remem-
bered. of a large part of the most
active and intelligent spirits of the
country-the continuous flow of few
arrests keeps the total at the same
level. Compare this with the 100 900,
at most, political prisoners in Ger
many.
Unsurpassed by France.
"You ask me what I think of the
present French leaning toward CO.
operation with Soviet Russia. It is
a very natural leaning. For in the
first place France has always sought
Russian friendship in order that Ger
many's eastern frontier may be
watched and she is likely to seek it all
the more today when she Is less sure
of Poland fulfilling that function. But
let there be no mistake. Soviet Rus
sia. in a last resort to arms, would
be as broken a reed for France to