AMERICA'S REGRET

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11735, 24 January 1924, Page 6

AMERICA'S REGRET

PASSING OF GREAT MAN. “HONEST AND SINCERE.’-’ Australian and N.Z. Cable A ssociation. (Received January 23, 8.45 p.m.) WASHINGTON, January 22. The White House spokesman said that President Coolidge hopes that Lenin’s work will somehow benefit Russia and civilisation. The president foresees no change in the Russian policy towards the United States as the result of Lenin’s death, wherefore the United States policy wili be unchanged. However officialdom in Washington unanimously regrets Lenin’s passing, believing that Russia will probably revere the man for his innate honesty and sincerity, similar to America’s ■Lincoln tradition. MADE GREAT PROGRESS. Senator Borah said that had Lenin lived Ruseia, in two or ■ three years, would have returned to a sound economic footing, and have restored complete relationships with other countries. While Lenin made great mutakes he also made great progress. Senator Ladd, who visited Russia last summer, said that Russia lost her best friend who worked in the highestinterests of the people. NO FEAR OF DISRUPTION. Charles Smith, a member of the American Railway Commission’s Russian survey, said that Lenin’s death would make no difference. There were too many good men in Russia; there was no fear of disruption. . Colonel Haskell, Chief of the American Relief Administration during the Russian famine, said that nothing would prevent Russia's drift to capitalism whither "Lenin himself had been leading the country.