Evening star., 1946-12-04

long ago as August fourth OF last year.
DR.. Ammende is figure of Importance.
He speaks with authority.
He is chairman of the International Committee
for the Relief of Soviet Russia.
He said that stin 1888 millions of people died
In the Soviet Union because relief was not forth
coming in due time
Dr. Ammende displayed photographs, issued
officially, he declares, depicting the bodies OF
starved peasants lying in cutters and along side
walks.
sLast year." said DR.. Ammende, sit was adj
mitted that the grain crop was fair.
seEven then it is estimated that between five
million and ten million people died of starvation"
am using Dr. Ammende's exact words.
seThis fall and winter" continued DR.. Am
mende, ssit will be at least as bad"
This means that five million or ten million
more peasants will die of starvation
And all this is happening in proletarian Utopia.
All these calamitous conditions exist as direct
consequence of this noble experiment" Of Com
munism, this optimistic adventure in government
by the least executive element of the community,
this so-caIed idealistic, proletarian despotism,
which some lunatics In our country desire us to
initiate.
Furthermore, all this suffering. starvation, and
wholesale death are occurring in the midst OF COM
parative plenty.
Peter Khrisanfov, attache Of the Washington
Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Repub-
lies, said recently:
sIn spite of the drought in some sections, the
harvest (of 1o34) is expected to compare favor
ably with the bumper crop of 1o33."
Apparently then, 1888 had bumper crop; and
still five million to ten million peasants starved
to death.
''The harvest (of 1934) is expected to compare
favorably with the bumper crop of 1888, and still
five to ten million peasants are expected to starve
to death this winter.
How is this possible?
Mr. Kossior, well known member OF the Mos
cow Politbureau, gives an mixing OF the explana-
ton in a statement before the plenum of the
executive committee of the Communist Party of
the Soviet Ukraine.
eve know by experience" stated Mr. Kossior,
as reported in the official organ Of the Soviet gov
ernment, the Izvestia, ssthat the question is not
only how large the crop is but how much grain
we shall succeed in collecting.
e'That,' says Mr.. Kossior, lis decisive. And
how much we collect depends on us, J" concludes
Mr.. Kossior emphatically.
DIR. Ammende also explains.
Says Dr. Ammende, and / am quoting him
verbatim:
ssAn available forces are now modified with
the object Of depriving the producer of his grain
strictly according to the plan drawn up by the
Kremlin months ago.
s'The very existence Of the population Of the
industrial districts, the feeding Of the populations
of the big towns, Of the members of the Commu-
mist Party, Of the Red Army, as well as the man-
tenance Of the grain export-the chief source Of
the Soviet government for getting much needed
foreign exchange depend entirely upon the sue
cess Of the harvest campaign"
BY what method is this grain ravished from the
Russian peasants, while they are left to starve?
Harold Denny, Russian correspondent Of The
New York Times, declares that there is going on
in connection with this years campaign Of spola-
ton, a struggle ssof nature and intensity prob
ably never before seen in the world.
He further remarks that this harvesting cam
paign is being carried through by the Soviet
authorities like military offensive
Doctor Ammende declares in support Of these