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Yesterday at luncheon at 1 o'clock, at the Liberal Club, Captain Paxton Hibben '04 spoke on the conditions in Russia at the present time. He is connected with the American Committee for the Relief of Russian Children, and is well acquainted with the actual conditions which prevail under the Soviet regime...
...Soviet government, and what its leaders are trying to do. His main point was that the attempts of Trotsky to Inaugurate a communistic form of government, modeled after the theories of Karl Marx, have been unsuccessful. The present famine is not due to the Soviet rule, according to Captain Hibben, but to an economic failure similar to that in the South after the Civil...
...There is no real communism in Russia", declared Captain Paxton Hibben '04, of the American Committee for the Relief of Russian Children, when interviewed yesterday by a reporter from the CRIMSON. "Communism is a beautiful theory, but it refuses to fit in with the conditions in Russia at present. We in this country hear a great deal about the socialistic form of government under Lenine and Trotsky, but as a matter of fact, there is no such institution in existence there...
...Captain Hibben has returned but recently from Russia, where he was connected with the Russian Commission of the Near East Relief, and spent a great deal of time in Russia as an actual witness of what was going...
...Captain Hibben described the famine which has a large part of Russia in its grip. "No one in America can realize how terrible the conditions really are. This wholesale death by starvation is more terrible than can be imagined. The Soviet government has spent $115,000,000 in gold for relief, but they can do no more, and the nations of the world must take up the cause...