Show tRUSS RUSSIAN I 1 I LEADER II I I II I I PROVES TO BE BEI MODERATE I i I Opposes Bolshevism Yet Holds I Place in Ministry I LONDON July 13 l'- l' Leonid Leonid Bor- Bor I who came Into the publics public's attention when he came canio to London this summer as ns head heal o of a R commission to negotiate ne tho the reopening reopen- reopen In ing of or trade relations between n soviet Russia and the tho outside world has hilS been one of ot the tow few moderates tob tobe to tobo b bo be given a place of ot responsibility Inthe inthe In the tho soviet let governmental go machinery and has hns been ch characterized as 1 a bourgeois bolshevist For engaging In rv a students students' demonstration dem dem- Krassin ln was expelled from the Petrograd r d Institute Institute- Subsequently nUy ha he engaged ged in a number of oC plots against t the curl czarist lt regime but continued to advance advance ad ad- vance In his profession that of an nn electrical engineer Following the tho bolshevist coup of or October 1917 Krassin was offered a seat scat In the tho ministry when no de dined as he ho thought turo ture too loo risk risky and his theories too sweeping But Dut his relations with Lenine were cordial and he accompanied accompanied and when they went to Brost to negotiate negotiate ne ne- the tho treaty treat with Germany German When It became me apparent that thal the bolshevist government would last threw In his lot with it and become commissary of ot food In iii the red army A bouN bourgeois bolshevist Is said to have little or no belief beller In Inthe inthe the tho theories and alms aims of ot the soviet government Ro For Tor the time at lea least t. t however ho hey was convinced that nothing was waa to bo be gained by resistance resistance resist resist- ance nce to the tho control of oC the workers Ho came to an understanding with the tha workmen in his own factory giving giving In ing shape to tho the soviet experiment During Durin his t tenure nure of or four ministerial ministerial minis minis- tonal offices he has worked Imperceptibly imperceptibly Imper Imper- for tor the restoration of oC the plain bour bourgeois methods of ot com com- m- m merce To him the tho nationalization of ot commerce was one of ot the most stupid of ot blunders As An for forthe forthe the world revolution ho he Is an nn entire skeptic and Is all aU for tor a bourgeois peace Ho Ile would load lead Russ Russian ro- ro Into the tho normal ways of ot democracy Who ho believes In BO- BO sm In Russia he Is reported to have asked ked Not I I. I nor Lenine |