Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-07-25 | Page 2 | Lenine Calls League Failure

LENINE CALLS LEMLURE Premier Declares Capitalistic System of World Is on Verge of Collapse MOSCOW, July 2-i (By the Associated Asso-ciated Press i Nikolai Lenlne. the soviet premier, speaking at the open-, .ng session of the third Internationale, Monday, slated that the world's economic eco-nomic crisis and the fallme of the league of nations to reconcile and unite tin- interests of capitalistic gov-i gov-i rnmentl were the most important factors promoting the alms of the third Internationale one of which was i consolidate and organize world revolution. rev-olution. Alter L. nine's addreas In w hich ho declared, among other things, that the entire capitalistic system of the world was threatened WltD collapse and that the league of nations contributed to communism, the intei natlouale adopted adopt-ed a resolution calling on workers of ml natlojia to institute an economic blockade of Poland. Lenlne pointed out that even in countries where there Were the mo6t favorable codltions. such as America, Japan and Kngland. the Increase in the coa; of living was disproportionate to the rise In wages and declaied that those who benefited In all countries were in infinitely small l-ioportion of the population. The deportation of 600 communists fiom America would not help the capl-lallsti.1 capl-lallsti.1 regime while need among the 1: Soling i i.-.s.s was increasing and capitalists v.ere continuing to enrich U etnselves at the expense of the workers, the premier continued. The working classes were ripe lor a broad revolutionary movement arid the task of this intei nationole was to consolidate consoli-date and organist- world revolution, he said. Collapse of the entire capitalistic s. stem was threatened, Lenine said. owing to the impossibility of settling war debts without involving many countries In economic . ruin and because be-cause of the hopelessness of reconstruction recon-struction under a capitalistic regime English economists, such as Kent, he declared, had already advanced the idea that annulment Of war debts was necessary for the i --establishment, of International credit. LJfiAGl 1 OF NATIONS The league of nations, a prey to Intel In-tel national dissensions, had furnished no protection to small nationalists, he asserted, and the Imperialistic governments govern-ments were placing the defeated nations na-tions in the position of colonies. Lenlne Len-lne cited the difference that had arisen aris-en with regard to the fate ot Turkey. Thus, he said, ti.e acttv ivies of the league of nations had facilitated the work of the communist Internationale. The premier pointed to the representation repre-sentation lii the Internationale for the first tunc of colonies, dependencies, and ! oppressed nations. " which he de-clared de-clared was sigiticant Experience was proving, he added, that non-capitalls-tic powera such r:3 those of Asia, were fertile fields for soviet doctrines. Regarding International organisation. organisa-tion. Leulne asserted that the Soclul-Lc-mociats were the most serious obstacle ob-stacle to the development of i evolutionary evolu-tionary power as a means of service to all counti les as it had been shown the; were the enemies of the working class