FAILURE OF COMMUNISM.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 3106, 27 December 1921, Page 6

FAILURE OF COMMUNISM.

ATTACK MADE BY LENIN. MOSCOW, Dec. 23. j ~i,in in opening I In 1 ninth congress „i Soviet sarcastically attacked those Communists who still believed tl.iil. il possible in solve Russia's economical ',,!,!,,„ | JVt .ivil war ami Gommumsi cxflesiveness. Hi- relentlessly condemned tin irrecuiicilahlc.s who deny Ihe neces,jtv i,j trade. His declaration thai the (io'veriiiiienl intended to requesl Coii-.,-,■(.v., in autlioi ise tin-in i" limil drasticsillv ill- Dowers ol Hie extraordinary , MMiiiiisri"!) lor lighting :i counter revolution ereiited :i sensation, lie praised ,],,. commission as indispensable when coiintcr-rev-oiutionarv plotting was supplied bv all eapitalist Governments, |,iit lie added .thai the commission's original scope was incompatible with Russia's new economic policy, and there 1,,,-e ii must he modified. A. and X.X. cable.

NEW ECONOMIC POLICY. F()|?Kl(!N TRADE REOEIRED. NEW YORK, Dec. 20. The Xew York Tinies's Moscow cor respondent states that'2l)oo Soviet dele e:ite, from Russia. oGorgin, Azerbaijan \i inenia and various foreign countries including Hie I'nited Slates. Japan am (ierinany, linl he Slate Opera lloils. ~ii the occasion ol' all addrc-s by- Lenin , v |„, held bis audience spellbound ivitl lii; impassioned speech on Ihe nev So\ iel's economical policy. He said •'Some ol you talk as if being, a Coin niunisl was everything. Are you no ;)W are thai the' factories are mostly j,l| ( .v Vim call yourselves the prole t;n iut, bul until industry is re-establish ~,| there can be no such thine as a pro 1,-tariat." lie added ihal the trad, lignres for the latter part of 1021 show ~,'j ;, real improveiiient in the economii situation. Although progress was bourn to be slow, it. was necessary to pass yet luitlier loans 1,, stimulate foreign traih to encourage foreigners, whether merchants or industrial entrepreneurs, t< engage in enterprise in Russia. The corn spoildent adds thai Lenin apparently feels encouraged to pursm |,i s new policy hv the assurance of the loyalty ol bis followers. It is also lelt tb'al internal inter-political reforms arc pending which will possibly be greater electoral liberty and the curtailment ol l|„. powers of 'the All-Russian UxtraoL-tliiisti-v Conimitt.ee.- A. and N.Z. cable.

EXPLOITING RUSSIA. CKUM AN GTCNF/RAI-'S PROPOSAL. PARIS, Doe. "2{. '!'],,. Mai in publishes :in interview u-itli General llufl'niann, Gorman Com-mander-in-Chief on lhe eastern I'roiil dorms.' the Wiii'. in which lie slates l.hal Bolshevism is more luonacin" than ever. 11 should he overthrown by the coni- !,!,,, i| force of Prance and Germany, the |a( Lcr inainl aiiiing an army "I a million 1,.0n, and after Unit. Hie Allied countries and Germany should divide Russia into exploitable seel ions. Coiinl Kosslor, formerly n friend ol the Kaiser, is now in Paris advocating a similar proposal. It is also reported Miai liovr Klines and Here RathomMi advocated fhe same tiling during their recent visits to London. Irreneli opinion regards lhe proposal as designed to assist Germany to acguire a large army, and also to distract. French al (eiiiion from the reparations. A. and N.Z. eahle.