TRIBUTES IN AMERICA

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 20, 24 January 1924, Page 5

TRIBUTES IN AMERICA

HIS HONESTY AND SINCERITY

RUSSIA'S BEST FRIEND 'GONE.

WASHINGTON, 22nd January. The White House spokesman said that President Coolidge hopes that Lenin's work will somehow benefit Russia and civilisation. The President foresees no change in the Russian policy towards the United States as the result of Lenin's death, wherefore the United States policy will be unchanged.

However, officialdom in Washington unanimously regrets Lenin's passing, believing that Russia will probably revere the man for hiß innate honesty and /sincerity, similar to America's Lincoln tradition. -. s ■ .•

Senator Borah said that had Lenin lived, Kuseia, in two or three years, would have returned to a sound economic footing, and have restored complete relationships with other countries. While Lenin made great mistakes, he also made great progress. *

Senator Ladd,< who visited. Russia last summer^ said that' Russia lost her best friend', who worked in the highest interests ..of the people. Charles Smith, a member of the American Railway Commission's Russian sur^ vey, said that Lenin's death would make id difference. There were too many good men in Russia; there was no fear of disruption. » . ■■

Colonel Haskell, Chief of the American,. Relief Administration during the Russian famine, said that nothing would prevent Russia's, drift to capitalism, whither Lenin himself Jiad beeu leading the country.