Necessity for an Economic Basis of International Peace

In Russia, in so far as her former territory is under the rule of the Soviets or the Bolsheviks, industry has been destroyed to a minimum part, the factories and mines are fallen into ruins, the railroads used up. Of about 30,000 locomotives, which Russia boasted of before the war, she has but about 5,000 left that can be made use of. The treasury of the Government is without funds, goods for export are lacking, the grain production has become decimated to such a degree that, according to a statement made by Dr. Fritjof Nansen, the president of the International Relief Association for Russia, not less than ten million people have died of starvation during less than two years. Personal information coming to me from Russia discloses that the hunger area will be of a yet greater circumference this year. Notwithstanding this, the Soviet Government is selling grain for gold to the foreign markets, so as to be enabled to buy what it seems necessary for its own wants. A betterment of the economic situation in Russia is not possible under the bolshevistic system. It is only possible to predict the following: firstly, that Russia, in her present condition, is incapable to undertake any military or political action of importance: and that, secondly, a very long period of years and enormous capital will be necessary, to build up in future her economical state. The latter depends upon the duration of the bolshevistic r gime; a question nobody today can answer. As long as this exists, Russia will be paralyzed, her population will be decimated by hunger and epidemics, and no economic basis of peaceful national life in Russia will exist

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