SOVIET TACKLES PROBLEM

Taranaki Daily News, 15 July 1933, Page 7

SOVIET TACKLES PROBLEM

MONKHOUSE GIVES CREDIT TRADE WITH ENGLAND URGED YOUTH MATERIALLY HAPPY PARTS OF PLAN SUCCEED By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 8.30 p.m. London, July 14. Mr. Alan Monkhouse, the Vickers engineer recently convicted in Russia, addressing the Manchester Rotary Club, urged that everything should be done to foster trade between Russia and Britain. “The present regime in Russia must be credited with having tackled the most important problem of national economy,” Mr. Monkhouse said. “Many in England feel such a system will be ultimately necessary in other* countries. The fiveyear plan succeeded in some directions, particularly electricity, but failed in connection with agriculture, while heavy industries such as iron, steel and coal are a long way from expectations. “Efforts to improve education and the welfare work have been strikingly successful. Young Russia, which has never known any other system except the Soviet, is settling down happily, though it is purely material happiness.” The second part of the five-year plan, Mr. Monkhouse said, included seventeen miles of dam across the Volga, which would irrigate all the wheat country; Russia need never again fear drought.