GERMAN AID TO LENIN

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28480, 9 January 1958, Page 9

GERMAN AID TO LENIN

U.S. Scholar’s Findings

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright i (Rec. 9 p.m.) NEW YORK, Jan. 7.

A United States scholar said today that he had found documents showing that Germany subsidised Lenin and the Bolshevik Revolution during World War I to the extent of 12 to 15 million dollars.

Stefan Possony, professor of international relations at Georgetown University, told a press conference in New York that he reached this conclusion after studying 20,000 feet of microfilm and 100,000 documents of the German Imperial Foreign Office of Kaiser Wilhelm 11. The film and documents were captured by the British at the end of World War 11.

Professor Possony said that he doubted if Lenin and the Bolsheviks could have come to power in Russia without the German aid.

Lenin and the Bolsheviks came to power in November, 1917, on a slogan of immediate peace with Germany. The results of Professor Possony’s studies, which lasted more than 10 years, will be published in a book.

FLYING-BOATS WANTED

Nuclear Power Experiments

(Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 7.

The United States Navy has approached Britain with a view to using Britain’s giant SaundersRoe Princess, flying-boats for nuclear power experiments, the Ministry of Supply said today. The request was being considered. “It is too early yet to say in which direction the negotiations are going,” a spokesman said.

The 150-ton flying-boats were originally intended for use by the British Overseas Airways Corporation on the Atlantic run. They were equipped with ten Proteus turbo-prop engines. But in 1954, two years after the prototype’s maiden flight, it was decided to suspend development until more advanced engines were available.

Three of the flying-boats were built and they are all now stored in plastic “cocoons,” near Cowes, on the Isle of Wight. They are owned by the Ministry. , A spokesman at the SaundersRoe factory on the Isle of Wight said today that a decision to use the flying-boats for nuclear power experiments would not affect the firm’s redundancy problem. Unemployment has hit the factory after the failure of the company to sell its SRI77 jet fighter to either the British or West German Governments.

Mr Eisenhower’s Health

(Rec. 9 p.m.) ( WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. Senator William Knowland (Republican, California) said after a White House conference today that he had never seen President Eisenhower look better in the last five years.

Senator Knowland; who met the President at a Republican leaders’ conference, was asked about the President’s physical appearance. He replied that Mr Eisenhower looked wonderful, was in good humour and good spirits, and “joined in all the give and take around the table.”