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Evening star., 1940-02-11

That brings us back to the orig
inal question. Is Russia preparing
to return to capitalism?
In addition to Stains "bible," !"
there Is one source Of support for
an Affirmative answer. Studies of
housing In Russia by Americans in
dicate that the Soviet housing prob
lem cannot be solved without some
form Of capitalistic approach.
II the answer to the question Is
mo-" then there must be alterna-
tives. Two Of these suggest them
selves:
/. Stain intends to stick to the
old Soviet system, and is only tax
ing the war on the western front
Is the opportune moment to absorb
Finland into the Soviet federation.
Stain himself answered this one.
He said, in his book, 80 no union
Of peoples, no amalgamation OF
peoples INTO 4 single state. can be
durable unless 1t 6 based, on alb
solutely voluntary consent, unless
the peoples involved themselves de-
sire to be united"
2. Stain has lost his grip on the
country, and is being overruled by
the Soviet bureaucracy.
Evening star., 1940-02-11

for the Armenians. II Georgia were
to follow q course Of rampant ma
tionalism, the 0eorgianS could en-
force almost any ultimatum on
Azerbaidjan and the Armenians.
Stain Predicts Result.
Multiply the Georgian situation
many times, and you have the situa.
ton In the federation Of Soviet re-.
publics as 4 whole once nationalism
Is loosed. The result, as Stain
saw 1t:
"The ties may be snapped between
these peoples and the Russian pro-
letariat, which involves the risk Of
a flssure In the system Of our die
tatorship."
The very roots of the Soviet sys-
tenn lie in self determination OF peo-
pies, he said, going back to the
overthrow of the Kerensky govern
ment to prove his point
when the Russian workers came
to power they would not have been
able to win the sympathy and con-
f1dence Of their comrades Of other
nationalities - had they not in
practice proved their readiness to
put such a national policy into ef-
feet, had they not renounced their
rights to Finland (Which then was
a part Of Russia, demanding its in
dependency, had they not evacu-
ated their troops from Northern
Persia, had they not put an end to
the claims Of the Russian imperial
lists to certain regions Of Mongolia
and China and had they not as
sisted the backward nationalities of
the former Russian empire to de-
velop their culture and political life
In their own language"
Definite Conflict.
This was not line of thought
adopted after the fact. In that
part Of "Marxism and the national
and colonial question:" which he
wrote in 1917, he asserted:
I'VE are at present witnessing a
definite conflict between the Fin
nish people and the provisional gov
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owing to which they are not in Z
position to defend their independent
existence without the military and
economic assistance of Central Rus
sia; just as Central Russia Is not in
position to preserve It's military
and economic power without the as
sistance Of the border regions in the
way of fuel, raw materials and
foodstuffs."
1t was in these border regions he
foresaw the beginning Of a crackup
OF the Soviet system If Russia should
adopt a strong nationalistic policy
in world affairs.
Example for Other Nstionalities.
"Great-power Chauvinism," as he
called It, was to him only big
brother to local varieties of Chau-
vinism =" which threaten to
turn some of our republics into the
scene of national wrangling."
In other words, II the Russians
should decide to force their will on
weaker neighbors, would It not be
an incentive for other nationalities
within the four Soviet republics to
impose their will on their weaker
neighbors?
In his home state Of Georgia, for
example, 80 per cent Of the people
are -Georgians: Armenians,
Abkhasians, Adjarians, Ossets and
Tatars. Suppose they got to fight
ing among themselves on national
lines! Stain recalls massacres and
pogroms of the past in warning.
Then, too, Georgia has q port,
Batum, and a real center, Tiflis.
The port is essential to the life of
a neighboring state, Azerbaidjan
Tif1is is a necessary economic outlet
Evening star., 1940-02-11
BY JOHN LEAR,
Aeenr,atAd PrAsR Efao Wrifnp

BY JOHN LEAR,
Associated Press Stan Writer.
Does Russia's war against Finland
mean that Joseph Stain has de-
cided to junk Soviet Socialism as a
failure and return Russia to cap
italism?
That is the first question that
comes into your mind If you take
time off from the war-front dis
patches to read modern Russia's
"Bible"-Stalins little known coun-
terpart of Adolf Hitler's well-known
'Mein Kampf"
For in that thin little volume,
''Marxism and the National and Co.
lonial Question" Stain lays down
this major premise of Soviet policy:
l. The October revolution" of
1917 succeeded because the Com
munist leaders insisted on the right
Of all nations to determine their
own destinies.
2. If Russia ever should change
from this course, the Soviet system
would break down.
The attack on Finland represents
such a change.
Stain makes this doubly clear by
emphasizing, all through his writ
ings, the importance of Finnish in
dependence as symbol of the work.
ability of the Soviet scheme of gov
ernment.
Warns Against Pressure.
Had they not been willing to grant
Finland her freedom at the time of
the revolution, he says at one point.
"the Russian workers would
not have been able to win the SYM
pathy and confidence" necessary to
their success. Again he warns
against any pressure that would
forfeit the confidence" of the
Firms.
Why, then, was he willing to fight
Finland?
Did he, with his record as a stark
realist, believe that after hammer
ing a line of action into the heads
of his people for 20 years he could
change his course overnight without
changing his regime?
Or did he deliberately shift direc-
tton while still convinced, as he put
It many times, that such a devia-
ton would undermine the Soviet
system and "+' restore capitalism"
Did he decide that Russia with
capitalism modified capitalism,
perhaps-and front door on the
Atlantic through Finland, would be
better than Russia with Socialism
or Communism and hemmed in on
all sides? Only Stain can answer
those questions.
Events Bear Out Prophecy.
Events, however, already are be-
ginning to bear out his prophecy
of the effects that would accrue If
Russia should change her attitude
from international fraternity to ag-
gressive nationalism.
"The chief danger" he wrote in
discussing this issue, is the risk that
the Russians may forfeit the con-
Evening star., 1940-02-11

fidence" they won in the October
revolution when they smashed ma
tional oppression, evacuated the
troops from Persia and Mongolia,
proclaimed the independence of Fin
land and Armenia and generally
placed the national question on an
entirely new basis.
1.-TWO things are possible: Either
we succeed in stirring up and revo-
lutionizing the far imperialist rear
the colonial and semi-colonial
countries of the East-and thereby
hasten the fall of capitalism, or we
muff it. and thereby strengthen i'm
perialism and weaken the force of
our movement"
Russia certainly has forfeited the
confidence of Finland. And since
the war in that country began, word
has come not only from Persia, but
Turkey, Afghanistan and India
colonial and semi colonial countries
of the East"-of discomfort and dis
trust over where Russia may move
next.
Threat of War in Mind.
Stain feared more than a mere
loss Of confidence on the part Of
these neighbors. The threat Of war
was in the back of his mind. More
than once he presented the theme:
"Of the 10000, 900 people Tin the
Soviet repubhcs) - the Great
Russians do not comprise more than
75O00,0O0. The remaining 65,000,-
600 consist of nationalities other
than Great Russians.
Furthermore, these nationalities
mainly inhabit the border regions,
which are most vulnerable from the
military point of view. -
Finally, these border regions are
less developed than Central Russia
Cor not developed at alb. from the
industrial and military point of view,
Evening star., 1940-02-11
Dr.. Guither to Address
D. c. Medical Society

DR.. Ernest H. Gather Of Balti-
more, past president Of the Ameri-
can dastroenterological Society,
viii address the District Medical
Society Wednesday night on "Com-
paratiye Analysis Of the Results OF
Various FERNS Of Medical Manage
ment Of Peptic Ulcer"
Dr.. George.P. Muller, professor OF
surgery Of Jefferson Medical School
will speak on The Problem ot
Surgical Treatment Of Peptic Ul-
GER"
Among those who will participate
Evening star., 1940-02-11
Is Russia Preparing to Adopt Capitalism?
Soviet Bible Which Ston Predicted Aggressive Noono|ism
Would Break Up System, Roses Question

Adolf Hitler outlined his plans
for Nazi Germany in a book,
"Mein Kampf." 1t Is, in effect,
modern Germany's Bible" Rus
STA has a Bible" too. Joseph
Stain Drote it. 1t is called
"Marrism and the National and
Colonial Question. In the fol-
lowing story John Lear, Asso-
ctated Press stat ,Oriter, tells
,Dhat he found in it and the sig
nifcant question it raises: rs
Russia preparing to return to
capitalism"
Evening star., 1940-02-11
Bondy to Be Speaker

Welfare Director Robert E. Bondy
will address the Council of Social
Agencies at the Y. w. c. A. at noon
tomorrow on public assistance needs
in the District.
Evening star., 1940-02-11

IN the panel discussion will be DR..
Gather, DR.. Roger M. Choisser and
DR.. A. B. Moore. Dr.. John H.
Lyons. president Of the Medical
Society, will preside.
Evening star., 1940-08-01
Two Brides-to-Be
Meet New Law
I'm Virginia
By Staff Correspondent Of The Star.
ATEvA NT0DTA xFo A,,r ~,

BY staff Correspondent OF The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, Aug. 1.-Two
persons have already been ex-
amined who proposed to be mar
ried in compliance with Virginia s
ne wlaw requiring blood tests as a
prerequisite to the issuance of mar
riage licenses, 1t was announced
today.
The new law became effective at
midnight last night and three cou-
Piles. were reported turned away
from the Office of Clerk of the Court
Elliott F. Hoffman today. The
couples were apparently unaware
of the new requirement that they
present a physicians certificate
stating they had been given .
sociological examination.
DR.. w. Lewis Schafer said he
took q blood specimen from one
woman yesterday who intends to
obtain q license next week and he
made q similar test on another
woman today The analysis will be
made at Richmond and it viii be
ut least five days before the results
are obtained. The law requires that
couples be married in not more
than 30 days after the medical tests
!, have been made.
Evening star., 1940-08-01

Bar Group 10 Ask
Immediate Passage
Of Nationality Bill
Measure Would
Revise and Codify
Naturalization Laws

Believing congressional action
"has been delayed long enough, +"
onicials of the American Bar Asso-
citation here will ask immediate
passage Of the proposed Nationality
Act Of 1910, designed to revise the
nationality laws of the United
States, it was learned today.
Action on the measure, which
marks the first attempt at codtfica-
ton of nationality law by Congress
in IS years, long has been urged
by special committee of the as
sociation headed by q former presi-
dent of the District Bar Association.
Attorney F. Regis Noel, chairman,
said representatives Of the State,
Labor and Justice Departments
have agreed on action, in the light
of mounting immigration prablems
as result of the European War.
Vital to Americans.
"A prompt adoption of the act is
as vital to Americans today as pas
sage of national defense legisla-
tion," Mr.. Noel declared.
The act has been reported to the
House with a recommendation that
it be passed.
Representative Rees, Republican,
of Kansas, a member of the Immi-
grafton and Naturalization Com
mittee, in a report on the act to the
House, stated the proposed code
represents a studied effort to draft
measure that would conform tc
the constitutional requirements
that the rules of naturalization be
uniform and facilitate the naturali-
zation Of worthy candidates and. at
the same time, protect the United
States against adding to its body of
citizens persons who would be a po-
tential liability rather than an
asset"
Fifth Column Barrier.
Mr.. Noel pointed out the new
laws would put teeth" in existing
regulations. He pictured an imme-
diate stoppage of aliens who enter
this country illegally. "A steady
stream of undesirable aliens con-
tinue to enter our large ports. even
as close to Washington as Balti-
more" he said.
The new code, he stated, would
assist greatly in getting to the
root of flfth-columnists' activity"
Members of Mr.. Noel's committee
include John r. Benney of the JUS
tice Department.; Richard w. Flour
noy of the State Department, Car
los Berguido, jr., of Philadelphia: !:
Henry F. Butler of Washington,
Walter J. Carlin of New York City,
J. Miller Kenyon, also of Wash
ington, and Arthur E. Goddard of
Brooklyn.
Evening star., 1940-08-01

formidable Spanish strongholds IN
the New World. Another is coming
into harbor, where three more are
riding at anchor in the roads. These
destroyers are of the latest type
single-stackers, and they look trim,
efficient and deadly.
The clipper moors just alongside
a ramp to the Naval Air Station,
where the red steel frames of q
number of hangers and other build
ings are going up. Two big patrol
planes, back from daily neutrality
duty. are hauled ashore in the
rain as we taxi up and are moored.
Extensive Construction.
The Army, we are told, is just as
busy as the Navy, with extensive
construction under way on the
northwest corner of the island, where
great Army Air Corps base and
establishments for defending ground
troops and artillery are being pre-
pared for early occupation. Military
regulations prohibit passenger flights
within sight of these installations.
The military preparations in
Puerto Rico come As q fitting climax
to a circuit of the Americas. Every
where we have seen the nations
preparing to repel aggression and
the work at this military outpost
seems to be something like the fitting
Of the keystone which supports the
whole arch.
Military authorities are agreed
that impregnability Of the Panama
Canal is essential to the defense of
all the Americas. with this knowl-
edge in the back of the mind, it is
assuring to see the extent Of the
preparations under way in Puerto
Rico to discourage any attack from
the Atlantic which might imperil
the lifeline Of American defense.
Evening star., 1940-08-01
Louis Krieger, Artist,
Dies Of Heat Stroke

Louis c. c. Krieger, 81, former
botanical artist with the Depart
ment of Agriculture, died yesterday
at Emergency Hospital as the result
of heat stroke suffered Sunday.
Mr.. Krieger was the husband Of
the late Agnes Krieger, who plunged
to her death last November from
their third-f1oor apartment at 1900
Massachusetts, avenue. His daugh-
ter Agnes, who leaped from the same
window few seconds after her
mother, recovered from serious in
juries received in the fall.
Mr.. Krieger was born in Baltimore
and had lived in Washington for
about II years. He retired from ac-
tive service in the Department of
Agriculture few months ago.
He is survived by his daughter
and two sisters, Miss Katharine
Krieger of Baltimore and Mrs.
Charles z. Dryden of Vineland, N. j.
Funeral services will be held at 10
am. tomorrow at the Taltavun fu-
neral home, 3619 Fourteenth street
NV. Burial will be in Fort Lincoln
Cemetery.
Evening star., 1940-08-01
Oil Antitrust Suit
Deferred Because
Of Defense Needs
Attorney General
Explains Further
Action to Be Studied
BY ]. A. FOX.

The long planned antitrust suit
by the Department of Justice to
force % major oil companies with
some 300 subdivisions to rid them
selves of certain distribution facil-
tiles and disintegrate their holdings,
has been called off for the time be-
ing because the needs of national
defense may, in fact. require the
concerns to expand the operations
OF which the Government is COM
planning. Attorney General Jackson
said today.
The Attorney Generals statement,
accompanied by another from
the National Defense Commission,
cleared the status of the litigation,
which, it had been understood for
several days. the commission be-
lieved should be held in abeyance
until its effect on the national de-
fense needs of the country could be
studied.
Future Action Uncertain.
There was no indication as to how
long the action would be delayed,
nor as to whether 1t would be modi-
fed in view of the new develop
ments.
In his statement. the Attorney
General explained that the Anti
Trust Division headed by Thurman
Arnold had recommended on July
"a that the suit, which would in
volve a large part of the oil in
dustry of the United States. be
authorized. The civil action con-
templated would force the COM
panies to divest themselves of pipe
lines. tankers and other marketing
facilities and disintegrate the con-
Germs to separate transportation and
marketing from the production of
oil.
Adding that "it is obvious that
the supply and transportation of
oil now have relation to the ma
tional defense" Mr.. jackson said
that Mr.. Arnold recommended that
no action be started until the views
of the National Defense Commis-
sion had been obtained.
Taken Under Study.
The commission, the Attorney
General continued, did not want to
render snap judgment, nor did I
want snap judgment" so the
matter consequently has been taken
under study.
In addition to the complex ma
ture of the action ITSELF" said Mr.
Jackson, Il am informed that there
are specific problems relating to
pipeline transportation, the manu-
facture of synthetic rubber and
other matters in which the COM
mission may find that defense re-
quirements can be met only by the
investment Of additional sums in
properties as to which this action
seeks divestiture
In emphasizing the necessity for
careful study, the commission said
ut was apparent, on its face, that
this suit, if successful. would re-
quire substantial changes in the en-
tire setup of an industry considered
basic to the national defense"
Evening star., 1940-08-01
MIR. B. Head Denie,
Board .Evaded
Congress Mandate
Name Change to Avoid
Abolition of Division
Hit by Routzohn
BY the Associa ted Press.

By the Associa ted Press.
J. Warren Madden, chairman of
the National Labor Relations Board,
heatedly denied today an accusa-
ton by members of a House COM
mittee that the board had "evaded"
instructions of Congress to abolish
its Economic Research Division.
Appearing before the special
House committee investigating the
board. Mr.. Madden said he re
sented' the implication by Repre-
sentative Routzohn, Republican, of
Ohio that the board evaded either
the law or the will of Congress.
Notwithstanding your resent
ment," cut in Mr.. Routzohn, lit is
clear to any one with a grain of
commonsense that this was purely
an evasion of the will of Congress. !"
Mr.. Routzohn referred to the
action of the board in changing
the name of the Research Division.
headed by David J. Saposs, to that
OF Technical Service Division after
Congress had eliminated funds for
the division from the boards reg
ular appropriation bill. ......-.-e.
When the Saposs division was
about to go off the pay roll" said
Chairman Smith, Democrat, of Vir-
ginia Of the committee, "the board
stepped around the recommenda-
ton of Congress that the research
division be abolished because of the
more or less radical proclivities of
its director, and I would like to know
why and how they expect to get
away with it,"
Representative Smith added that
he felt the board had violated a
direct mandate" of Congress in
failing to abolish the division. Mr..
Madden maintained that nothing
had been inserted in the law which
required the abolition of the di-
vision. In response to questions the
board chairman said there had been
no substantial change in the func-
tions of the division or its personnel
although some employees had been
dropped as a result of the curtailed
appropriation.
Representative Murdock, Demo-
crat, of Utah defended the boards
action and said the Appropriation
Committees action was a side
door" effort to do by indirection
something that could not be done
directly.
Evening star., 1940-08-01
Senate Gets Nomination
Of Warren as Controller

President Roosevelt today sent to
the Senate the nomination of Repre-
sentative Lindsay G. Warren, DEM
ocrat, of North Carolina to be con-
troller general. The appointment Of
Mr.. Warren was announced yester-
day. He will succeed Fred H.
Brown, who recently resigned.
Mr.. Warren, who had served IS
years in the House. recently had
been renominated and il will be
necessary now for the Congressional
Committee of the Ist s>orth Carolina
district, which -fle represents, to
choose a successor.
Another nomination by the Presi-
dert today was that of Edward
Dana Durand of Minnesota, who is
being reappointed to the Tariff
Commission.
Evening star., 1940-08-01
Weather Conditions Last ~ Hours

Weather Conditions Last 24 Hours.
The trough of low pressure that was over
the Middle Atlantic States and Of the north
Atlantic coast has moved eastward. Hat
teras. N. c.. 1.010.s millibars t29.ss
inchesl. while the disturbance that was
over the northern plains States has ad..
vanced slowly eastward to Minnesota and
Eastern Nebraska. Omaha. Nebr., 1.0i0.5
millibars IA inches). Pressure is rela-
lively low from Southeastern Montana
south h-southwesteward to Arizona. high
pressure area, attended by cool tempera-
lures for the season. Is advancing eastward
over the Lake region. Alpena. Mich. 1.o23 o
miliibars t30.21 inches. and pressure is
relatively high over the Gulf of Mexico
Port Eads La. l.015.2 millibars (29.9S
inches), and on the Oregon coast. Medford,
Oreg., 1918 millibars (30.O4 inches).
During the dast "a hours local showers
and thunderstorms have occurred in the
plains States. the Southern Rocky Noun
tain region, the Ohio and Mississippi VAL
leys and in portions of the Gulf, the South
Atlantic and Middle Atlantic States. Tenn
peratures have fallen In the lower Lake
resion, the upper Ohio Valley and in the
Middle Atlantic and North Atlantic States.
Evening star., 1940-08-01
Hull Arrives Home;
Will Speed Action on
Hemisphere Defense
U. 5. Member to Be
Named on Committee
For Foreign Possessions
BY GARNETT d. HORNER

Returning today from the emer.
gency meeting of American foreign
ministers at Havana, Secretary ol
State Hull was expected to speeo
steps by the United States t6-carr,
out cooperative measures adopted
for economic and political defense
of New World security.
One of the first steps necessary
to set in motion machinery provided
by the Act of Havana, considered
the most Immediately important re.
suit of the conference, is appoint.
ment of the United States member
of an inter-American committee
which would assume administration
of any European possessions in this
hemisphere which might be taker
over by the Americas to prevent
their domination by Germany.
The temporary committee would
function pending ratification by
two thirds of the 81 American 1e-
publicS of convention creating 9
permanent inter-American commits.
sion on territorial administration
Appointments to the committee
shall be made "as soon as possible,
the Havana conference agreed.
Financial Actions.
Ratification of a convention set
ting up an inter- American bank
already signed by the United States
and awaiting Senate approval; Other
action to facilitate economic and
financial aid to its neighbor repub-
lies, and adoption of bans against
every political activity" by foreign
groups or individuals also are early
responsibilities of this Government
under the far-reaching program
projected at Havana.
Secretary Hull and the group Of
advisers, assistants and newspaper
men who accompanied him from
Washington to the meeting arrived
here this morning aboard special
train from Miami, when they landed
yesterday after an overnight boat
trip from Cuba.
During the Today conference Mr.
Hull concentrated his attention
upon creating united front among
the Americas to prevent transfer
of New World possessions from one
European power to another, COM
bat subversive activities and de-
fend hemisphere economy against