FALL OF SOVIETISM.
LENIN ADMITS FAILURE. By Telegraph.--Press Assn. —Copyright. Paris, Dec. 1. Mr. Parley P. Christensen, former Labor candidate for President at the last election, interviewed Lenin for the United Press. Cabling from Riga, Mr. Christensen quotes Lenin as predicting war between the United States and Japan, and admitting that the Soviet Communistic programme has gone right to the bottom. Lenin eagerly questioned his interviewer the possibility of an American-Japanese .war. On Mr. Christensen stating that Japan and America were friends and that war was unlikely, Lenin insisted that the capitalists wou’d force a war. eventually declaring: “It s brewing now.” Lenin was also keenly interested in the feeling between America and Engi land. T .
Regarding the Russian famine, Lenin declared that they needed grain, .and that the situation would be worse as the winter progressed. Ho appealed to American farmers to send wheat, saying: “Feed our famine victims and we can put furs on your wives.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 December 1921, Page 5
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