Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-06-27 | Page 6 | 'Inside Facts' on Russ Bared

'INSIDE FACTS' i ON ROSS BARED Observer's Report, Given to Delegation Chiefs at The Hague l TDK 1 1 f.IE. June 27 The Associated Asso-ciated Preato hns obtained, with permission per-mission to publish, a copy of a private pri-vate report on Russia which will be distributed to th Chief! of the delegations dele-gations from non-P.usMan ountriea. Thla report cmbodle? the views of a prominent nnd competent European observer of liberal tpndencles who re-1 re-1 cently enrne from Russia after mak-i mak-i ins a thorough Investigation of the. pollticnl conditions there. The report contains ten paragraphs r in irkabla for their brevity The name of the Investigator Is withheld by .lyreement Tho "ten points" follow fol-low ; First Barring unforsecn events, th- soviet regime Is not near collapse, their most ardent adversaries, the Socialists, think they may continue in power for another 10 years. Second The economic exhaustion of Russia Is coniplete. nnd admitted by the aovlets. All power of purhv-o has dtaa opea red. Third The Soviets are divided among themselves and internal struggles strug-gles have begun. Fourth Hatred of the old regime Is general among the people Fifth Blockade and foreign military mili-tary aggression have maintained the Soviets In power but resumption of OOQtact With Europe will destroy them and accelerate their evolution In the direction of conservatism Sixth. The Soviets recognize without with-out hesitation that only the foreigner foreign-er Con reconstruct Russia. Seventh For the moment the ln-transigeant ln-transigeant faction of tho Soviets triumphs. Eighth Lltvlnoff does not arrive with conciliatory intentions. Ninth The Russian Socialists would adhere immediately to soviet-ism soviet-ism If they could obtain the right to vote, the secret vote and liberty of speech and the press But the Socialists are inclined to refuse the franchise to the bourgeois?. Tenth The blockade and foreign military Interventions have developed very' powerful nationalism and eno-phobla eno-phobla In Russia. "The world." says the report, "must keep these facts In mina." 00