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Show II LEIflE DEAD OR DYING, MMBl I THUS, AND HE SEES CHADS FOR I RUSSIA, POSSIBLY FOR WORLD I By MAX MTLLI A X HARDKX (icnuany's Foremost Publicist Special Coble to Tin- Stanlard-Examlner. Stanlard-Examlner. (Copyright, 192 2 ) BERLIN'. June 10. It has been Intimated In-timated over the telephone that Lenlne Len-lne either was dead or dying-, but as I write it still is impossible to confirm this news which come? from a reliable source, It had been decided in the event rif death to keep it secret until (ho atrnoaphero could be prepared ;md r myself cannot doubt, considering the hasty return to Moscow Of Radek and Litvinoff. and the deep emotion evident evi-dent in communist circles, that at the very least his condition is most critical. crit-ical. Napoleon, when asked what people would say to his death, answered: 'They'll say "Ah!" and heave a algh of relief.' He little guessed he would die a .prisoner, unfenred by anyone. I wonder whether Lenlne did n"( 'expect the sani" attitude'' He has been seriously ill for many months 'Germany" foremost neurologist, as well as our greatest Burgeon, Professor Profes-sor LJorchardt, whs summoned to Moscow. Mos-cow. It was reported liorchardt simply sim-ply would extract the bullet whn h Dora Kaplan. lodged In Lenin' s shoulder, but calling our great brain operator for such a simple ' smacked of the customs of the czar and not of Lenine's simplicity Other indications also suggested a brain amlnation was Impending. MANY BITTint TRUTHS Shortly before Lenine had made the speech, which possibly may have bei n Ills last, which showed his majestic common sense, telling the bolshevlsts unsparingly many bitter truths "We do not know how to govern and any clerk comprehends trade cconom- ies better than you communists who risked your lives in the revolution," he said. "Instead of flauntinK your ! party doctrines you must learn how to .administer and provide the people i with life's necessities otherwise th ; hungry peasants will send us all to the devil.'' This was the last time he was seen I in public, but behind the seen' - he has worked harder khan ever for never nev-er was a party so torn by fierce quar-; quar-; rels. Nobody knew this outside the grandiloquent world Judges a.t Genoa did not realize on what a volcanic foundation the Russian delegation stood. Though Petrogr.id. ruled blunderingly blun-deringly by Simoneff, was threatening secession and riotous secret meetings were held almost nlphtly In Most ow umong those planning revolt against the soviet policy of compromise with capitalism concessions, etc.. this fury was restrained by one magic word Lenlne. All believed in him. respected him and loved him, even the opponents oppo-nents of his new policy. CAN'T BlS REPLACED Vladimir Ilyltch L'llanoff, called Lenine in political and literary life was one of th old time Russian nobility no-bility and the heart and bruin of the tcreatest revolution of all history. The time is not now to pcnu of his work and character. What's important now is what comes after him Nobod) can replace him. Marx's doctrine of economic eco-nomic determination men king personality person-ality falls down here and shows h hat one mans Leadership worth in stormy times. Trotsky, with his stei I will and abundant Intelligence the organizer of the red arm: LJt-vlnoff, LJt-vlnoff, Grassin. Simenoff and Rai are not of the highest type of Rus All lack the hundredth part of Let n- lne's art of ruling Tie latter the so-called nationalized property; aiandon communism's outward Igns; reopen money circulation for prh trade, banks anl the stock exchanges; seize church treasurer, een convoke the resisting priests including the honored hon-ored patriarc h Tychon before a rai 0- lutlonary tribunal He alone could be iven befti 1 n di als for granting concessions to the fOr Ign "proiitei rs" exploiters of the proletariat who must be humiliated and enslaved. " as the revolutionary program provided and he alone could have achieved a transition to real democracy with a 1 a lltion government. PEASANTS DOVE HIM Almost everybody believed that What Lenlne thought necessary was indeed in-deed necessary. The peasants, working work-ing men, even those w hom he bitterly as tiled affectionately railed him "Ilyitch" and thiv pet name showed iliii they loved him. Working In his bhabby cout amidst the kremlln's an-. an-. :i i.t splendor. amonK the three holiest holi-est cathedrals under Czar Ivan's su notified no-tified bell tower Ilyitch mlcrht have become be-come in reality what the people's imagination im-agination made him God of all, the Kuisian czar the new dvnast) The Romanoffs themselves once belonged to the small aristocracy ami the half mystical czar Aurlk the first came from Viking Ian.:- But, unlike Lenlne. Len-lne. Napoleon bad no desire for such a fame so the v Id, before sighing relief at his deatn, should pause for 1 after him I- chaos unless tho earth's wisest powers prevent it by careful management of the Russian minds i dissimilar governments, civil wars, and ustoms. There will be separate dictatorships of more than one peasant peas-ant prophet, complete devastation of 1 lie vast territory where today tw n I v-tive millions are dying and eighty millions are destitute and returning to cannibalism. However, so long as his .Path is kept secret, bolshevlsm remain- but it rannot survive Lenm as 1 v rythlng falls with him. DEATH EXTAILS DANGER ; All Genoa's cunning, incongruou - Ra-pallo Ra-pallo treaty The Hague conference become old iurnier. scrap iron and 1 waste paper. Never in modern time has a single individual death entailed isueh dangers They arc not only for Europe for I Is n question whether I Japan won't take advantage of Russia's Rus-sia's chaos and Kurope, which has staked all on Russia's reconstruction, cou'd not survive such days without shaking to her foundations This blood red sun suddenly disc loses los-es new tasks for our continent .and woo jbetido if we do not decide quickly to drop all national strife and haste ac- jtive reconciliation. Can America, dare she. in her own I interest, wait to se whether Europe , will realize her peril in time? I no |
