"The Best Is Yet to Be"

Members of the "Unofficial Commission of Hearst Newspapers" completed a "long and thorough" tour of Russia with a week-end conference with M. Kalinin, Chairman of the Presidium of the Union (of Socialist Soviet Republics) Central Executive Committee.

Said M. Kalinin: "The only possibility here is that a counterrevolution would reverse the situation and swing us back to capitalism. But, even then, foreign property would be secure, whereas other countries are now threatened by revolutions which would abolish property rights."

This indeed seems tantamount to admitting that things have been so bad that they could not get worse.