RUSSIA.

Evening Star, Issue 20666, 13 December 1930, Page 22

RUSSIA.

TO THE EDITOR. _ Sir, —It _ seems rather a waste of time carrying on a correspondence with Mr Noilson on tho subject of Russia, but in the light of the quotation yon make in last night’s issue from Mr Hessell Tiltman’s article after a tour of that country, I think 1 might ask Mr Noilson a question or two. Of late he has taken tho lino that, however bad things aro in his ideal country, they aro not so bad as they wero under the Tsar’s regime; a poor argument, surely. Tho first question I would put is: If tho Soviet repudiated all debts, confiscated all , private property, stole anti sold the crown jewels and every other negotiable article it could lay hands upon, why did it not have sufficicnc capital to carry into effect the great schemes it has to secure national prosperity ? Second: Does ho claim that all the people aro equally remunerated for then’ labour, and if not, why not? Third: Does he claim that the Government is able to adequately “ feed, clothe, warm, and house their many millions ” (his own statement), If not, why not, in view of tho enormous sums realised by the confiscation I have referred to? When ono reads that the average wage paid in Russian industry is £5 per month for an unskilled worker, and of tho luxury in which tho embassy lives in London, ono asks in wonder if this is Communism, or if tho proletariat has merely exchanged one tyranny for another.—l am, etc., December 13. Doubter.