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Town Hall Speaker Says on a collectivist basis was predicted before the Town Hall of Washington | last night by Maurice Hindus, noted author on Russian affairs. sonal observation, the enormous eco- i nomic days, back DEMOCRAGY SEEN up to state System to Be Based on Collectivism. have other, An eventual democratic Russia produc clalist Hindus stressed, as matters of per- of individual liberty, But, he insist- state of war since 1917. First was the AS SOVIET'S GOAL 2 war, which has continued practically crushing the rights of the individual. has both a destructive and a con- structive side, and the reason for the conflicting reports is that observers picture they wished to paint. The |Di philosophy of socialism, Hindus is concerned primarily with the dis- tribution of goods, and not with their set up had very little to distribute, and they had to turn their attention THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, to the unfamiliar problem of pro- advance of Russia over czarist but admitted the great draw- was the almost complete lack ducing something. s been in a continuous tion itself, and then the civil the present. Any nation in a of war, he said, is ruthless in The Russian situation, Hindus said, emphasized one aspect or the according to the tone of the said, ction. When the extreme So- distribution system they had As a result, he pointed out, there has been a good deal of probing in the dark and some expensive failures, which now are becoming successful. The government breught in American, German and English engineers. It purchased the best factory machin ery. It set up large industrial cities. The people were very largely unfa- miliar with machinery. the earlier production was pure waste. There is reason to believe, he said, | that this experimental and many of the factories now are as efficient as any in the world. He de- ed that the Russian is inherently non-mechanical. Russians in Amer- ica, he said, have proved excellent mechanics and they are mastering the intricacies of machines in their own clalists found themselves in power in |land. Russia, they discovered that the S8o-| The mechanization Hirdus said, had resulted in the de- velopment of the spirit of nationalism. The result has been much the same as was that of the mechanization of Western Europe and Japan. Before, the Russian peasant was devoid of pa- triotism. Moreover, the Russian peasant was inclined to indolence, through the very habits of life of the nation. ‘The Soviet leaders, Hindus said, had - | little idea of the direction in which they were going when they started and have followed the path of oppor- Much of|tunism. This accounts for some of their apparently broken promises. Their greatest obstacle, he pointed out, period is over | was when they tried to communize the farms, resulting in one o fthe greatest famines, when the angry peasants slaughtered their live stock as & re- sistance move. Many were executed. With the free press and free discus- sion prohibited there was no oppor- tunity for political pressure to be placed on the government to g0 mlo;: slowly. Otherwise, he believes, B e tragedy might have been averted. But, Hindus pointed out, the ruth- lessness with which the program Wwas D. C, y started with some of the most primitive individuals farming on earth, in which famines of some sort were almost inevitable every few years. They are emerging with modernized collective farms and, at least in the more advanced areas, there would be bitter opposition to any return to the old system. With its program well under way, Hindus said, the rigor of the Soviet government is being relaxed in many directions—notably in entertainment and education. latter, individual study and thought now is being encouraged. Hindus was questioned by & lrlendly panel, compared with have been on hand at most of Lhe Town Hall sessions. This panel con- sisted of Rev. Edmund A. Walsh of Georgetown University; Dr, Stephen Duggan, director of the Institute of International Education; ex-Senator Smith W. Brookhart of Iowa and Especially in the those Wwhi The sumed ‘Walter N. Polakov, consulting !fll‘l' speaker cmlcully buc‘:ulu mildly. JEWISH CITY FESTIVE Thousands in Tel Aviv for World HAIFA, Palestine, April 1 (Palcor Agency).—The largest number of passengers ever brought on one boat into Palestine was discharged here yesterday from the Italian liner Roma, Most of them arrived to attend -the Second Triennial Maccabiad, world Jewish athletic games, which open at Tel Aviv_ tomorrow. play everywhere and thousands of visitors inspecting the stadium. MONDAY, APRIL 1, 1935. pushed through resulted in one of the greatest advances Russia has made. Athletic Games. cides Not which carried 1,650 persons. will direct the all-Jewish city of Tel Aviv as- gala attire with flags on dis- = WORK BILL FUND SOUGHT FOR ARMY House Military Group De- MacArthur Program. By the Associated Press. Hopeful that President Roosevelt|tional Guard camps, while another * A7 tee has decided not to press for spe- cific approval of a $405,000,000 Army modernization program. ‘This program, submitted to the come mittee several weeks ago by Gen, Douglas MacArthur, chief of staff, first was considered as a rider to the work- relief bill. Subsequent amendment of the bill, providing that none of the funds should be used for munitions or military equipment, forestalled this move. Representative Hill, Democrat, of Alabama, chairman of a subcommit- tee which has been considering the MacArthur plan, has pointed out that as much as $132,000,000 may be allo- cated from the work-relief lund for modernization of Army posts and Na- to Press for use of part of the| $75,000,000 might properly be ear- $4,880,000,000 omnibus lppruprmlons’ marked for construction of a series of bill for Army and national defense projects, the House Military Commit- \ amendment, he said. | air bases. 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