RUSSIA’S ADVANCE

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3849, 4 October 1932, Page 5

RUSSIA’S ADVANCE

NOT DUE TO -COMMUNISM SAYS DR,. RUSHBROOKE (Pgr ness Association). 'Wellington, October 3. There i s no true -Communism in Ru-sia to-day, according to Dr. J. H. Rushbrooke, general secretary of the Baptist World Alliance. Instead there, is State Capitalism. The, only rolio’of Communism that lias been retained is State control of inputs and exports. 7>r Rushbrooke, spoke with the 1 anthufiity of one who lias made no fewer than six visits to the laud o 1 tin, "Soviets ’since the Revolution. ‘.‘lf there is one department of human affairs in. which one does well to be sceptical, i; is" that concerning reports fro'm Russia.. Almost all of tiles© reports are coloured cither Red or White. A let are not only coloured but constitute simple, downright lying.”