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Show archists, but they lack political driving force. "Oil! yes!'' exclaimed the minister, "they criticise us, too, in Russia. People whose affairs are not prosperous are apt to curse us, but after all they recognize that we are not responsible for the consequences con-sequences of the war and that our pronounced pro-nounced Socialist . system is best adapted adapt-ed for Russian conditions. Our aim is to provide an abundance of those good things which mankind needs for the enjoyment en-joyment of life. We are not ascetics. We do not want to return to primitive conditions. On the contrary, we wish to make people's lives richer and happier. We do not object to wealth for all, but we do object to the capitalism which dooms millions to misery so that the few may have luxury." M Joffe denied that there has been any split between Leon Trotzky, minister of war. and Premier Lenine, as has been reported. He also contradicted, the Interviewer In-terviewer says, the widely held view that Great Russia Is dependent upon the L'kraine for grain. The Siberian grain -rop was available for export, he said, "and when our relations with the centra! powers are in proper shape we shall be quite able to ship grain to them, and likewise like-wise to ship metals. We also have great stocks of linen." "What we need from Germany," continued con-tinued M. Joffe, "are dyes, medicines and agricultural machinery. We have not given Americans or other foreigners any mining, railway or other concessions. "We are not trying to compel Russians to return home, and we welcome the coming com-ing of foreigners. The latter will enjoy equal rights. We even favor suffrage for foreigners. "Food conditions are not good in the towns, but there is plenty in northern Russia. We are working hard to improve transportation. As to the exchange of prisoners, we are ready to accelerate it. It is to our own interest to do so.' RUSSIAN ENVOY AT BERLIN TALKS OF OUTLOOK AT HOME AMSTERRAM, May 14. Return of the monarchy in Russia is unthinkable, Adolph Joffe, Russian ambassador, declared in a recent interview given to Dr. Friedberg, the Berlin correspondent of the Vienna Neues Journal. Incidentally M. Joffe characterized any assertion that Americans Amer-icans "during the war or during the revolution, revo-lution, received any concessions from Russia," as a pure invention. On his main topic of governmental prospects in Russia M. Joffe admitted that a government govern-ment of non-socialists "under artificial condition," was within the range of possibility, pos-sibility, but never a return to the rule of an emperor. "There is today," lie continued, "no power in Russia strong enough to upset us. Behind us stands the great mass of the peasants and workers all those whom the capitalistic system had not blessed with this world's goods. The lower bourgeois strata is also coming over to us. The people recognize that Milu-koff Milu-koff and his friends are useless and that the Mensheviki and the Kerensky Socialists Social-ists have turned out to be a failure. There is only one group left, namely, the an- |