RUSSIA IN PRINT.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20315, 14 August 1931, Page 13

RUSSIA IN PRINT.

10 na KBITOB or tee press. c ir _Was not tho title to your Sato's leader changed by some oiaianco by that imp known as the Ws devil"? Should it not road ..{[nssis in Purple a»d luno Lintn, Xrinclv is the picture painted ? lfMwd a new and hopeful sign ia Itee strenuous daj;s of huge education votes running into million:,, such a highly influential paper as Sentially decrying edutatioa, scholarship, and scientific 111rountion. "Academic economists (gj fuubt one of the products ot the tee education rote) are apparently untrustworthy, and not to he takon "["presume it is intended to include amongst the "academic economists m like Professor Paul Haensol, DLL., author of "The Economic Policy of Poriet Russia." This man held the ihair of public finapce. and was a 1 rotor and Dean of the School of Lcotonues in Moscow for over twentj -five x«rs. He was a President ot the Fiumeial Section of the Institute of Economic Research attached to tho C«mmiss»riat for Finance of Soviet Russia. He took part in the work of the Commissariats for Foreign Irado, Foreign Affairs, and for Transportation, in tlie work of tho Budget Committee, in the Customs Tariff Committee and otter Soviet Institutions. H« was asked to takei/a seat as a Itante.of the Preparatory Com mi tVsrld's Economic Gonferftttie fbrltague of Nations. Ali Ibaujh a Hia of world-wide reputa!ion, and'ilttaifb a Russian, still lie 'a an "academic economist," and that should-tttrefy be enough to damn any maa'j attsMces on this question; in fad, iKhauan must bo on a par with tbe "biassed Englishman." So to eefc-a clear and unbiassed t'm of the Russian situation, and to gire a trae aiid comprehensive account I waling situation. The Press hrard a Mr Hindus, now an citiwn (whether the usual 100 per cent. American is not rho. fourteen years ago, lived isian Tillage, the people of stil two rears ago you tell ot wear underclothing. From whose "evidence is Russian 9 reactions are Russian, and a sharp eye and a sensitive an unusually dispassionate '8 learn amongst other deI lore-making still goes on Milight' in Soviet Russia. and ran even .buy linstiek and ' in the benighted village Mr mes fron.. Reallv, what more want?- One wonders what Hy harp hanpened to this 'on his again visiting his 'llage, he had not uttered Slit and soul-stirring truths ! Soviet Russia —"one the world—one-sixth under noffs"—you inform us. 1 MJRh your article in vain for phrases a* "God's in His Ts right with Russia,'' i.e.. th of the world —one-sixth Romajioffs." > are treated to a disserta- * Roumanian with an unto name living in a RouHage no one lias ever heard with an unpronouncable to the remarks of one. Liam and cne Clara Zetkin idence is Russian and whose are (no doubt) Kussian." certainly not 'academic or "biassed Englishmen," fore, their evidence must be *stion, and, of course, must, *pt the simplest of us, be • the last word on tho mattho last word, for your Mi fourteen years' American . and an undershirt. has Wt word which leaves one • That word is "De-Kool- ' ft sounds like a disinocess, but it is not. The not even appear to offend 've ear of the Russian in I suppose "academic eeono- ® Dr. Hnensel, or even I* like the Members of the r Chamber of Commerce, ® far-away glimmering of »e-Kcol;ickization" really LI 4ouht it. It. is only a uas recently left the nuijik taken to an underskirt. Stions are consequently Rus- . can throw light on this Product, but even I, a nclnhmnn." will try. • lack" (correct me, Mr Edia wrong) is the large landed tho undoubted bloated of Soviet Kussin. He owns n fifteen acres of land. Our :t <* rack rented and mortJ®*®*!, is nlutotTiit. a liothsL a vitalised "Stsitue of comnari.'on with the our Russian-American omits that this danger to the *yK°ola"k. has taken from ffi'nt! taxations, nnvthing * cent., with an additional t. or, excess profits, aggra<ocal surcharges. and even "Het 'like Warren Hastings '•"re Chamber of the Indian ; i« amazed at its own e*tra-tifjii Irom tho Koolaek wtent, in the eyes of the ®"®.rid of this bioated aris«ocial pest, so the Koolaek, P? Mr Hindus, is to suffer ■Nation." It sounds to an "whose re-actions are

not Russian,'' something like a mixture of the gibbet, the rack, Siberia, and tho poleaxe. Still, notwithstanding 'de-iioolack-ization" it is pleasant to learn from the O'Flahertys, tho Zetkins, the Istratis, and the "Presskies,' vvho are neither "academic economists nor "biassed Englishmen" (who, of course, are the last word—except, of course, "de-koolackization"—of ignorance and biap, upon this subject) that the sun still 6hines over the c-c-cow-shed, etc -' and that "moonshine and J' ose s natural phenomena in Soviet Russia (like the abolition of Christmas); ot which phenomena I trust the simple souls like the members of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce. Dr. rant Haensel, and other "academic economists" and "biassed Englishmen whose "evidence is not Russian and whose reactions are not Russian, wilt take due note.—Yours, etc., A BIASSED ENGLISHMAN. August 12th, 1931. [The only difficulty we have liad with tho printer's devil has been toP P r" suade him that an educated Englishman who so freely "bi-asses" himself is entitled to remain "unproas well as anonymous. —Ed., The Press.]