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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.
He discussed the more prominent features of the 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 War.
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