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Show RUSS READY TO talk mm MOSCOW. Nov. 21 (By the Associated As-sociated Press.) The soviet government govern-ment must not be afraid to glvo con- cessions to foreign capitalists. Premh r Lenine declared at a great meeting! of tho Moscow soviet In the grand opera house Monday night, Five thou-1 sand persons, the largest crowd that has heard the premier since his 111- I ness, crowded the auditorium- "Russia." said Lenine. "is so big I and has such wonderful economic pos- I slbilltles that there Is no reason to refuse any fair proposition from interests in-terests outside the country We will make such favorable arrangements that the capitalists will be compelled to come to do business with us despite their present enmity toward us." M.VY METHODS SEEDED. He emphasized that Russia's legislation legis-lation was so framed that it was quite possible for capitalists to. engage in business here safely and under almost normal conditions, reaping fair profits for their undertakings. He remarked that there were many difficulties still confronting Russia new problems which demanded new methods and new men to carry thenn out "We must strive to learn to work under tho new conditions," he continued, con-tinued, "we must learn tp be flexlb'e. Of all that we have gained in our five years' struggle, there is nothing Wo shall give back to the bourgeois We must not dismiss ;iny of our old I alms, but at the same time there i; j no harm admitting the fact thut in j some quarters we now are considered in the class of a capitalistic country." TO SATISFY PEOPIiK. Individual and government officials wore urged by the premier to take thmgs in a practical manner. It was lila desire to satisfy the people by thetnew methods so that there would be no one who wanted to go back to the pld state of affairs, no |