Title | Facts and fabrication about soviet Russia |
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Publisher | Rand School of Social Science |
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Date | 1920 |
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Language | English |
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Original Item Extent | 93 pages; 20 cm. |
Original Item Location | DK265.C55 1920 |
Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b8304542~S11 |
Original Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
Digital Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp |
Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
Repository URL | http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections |
Use and Reproduction | This item is in the public domain and may be used freely. |
File Name | index.cpd |
Title | Image 48 |
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File Name | uhlib_768764_047.jpg |
Transcript | for a number of decrees, many of them admirable in theory, for the free education of the whole people. In reality these reforms exist only on paper, all education having broken down under the oppression of a regime, which in spite of all Bolshevist inducements has alienated the sympathies of that hitherto most revolutionary body, the Union of Russian Teachers, (p. 60.) Shatov* has in his face every indication of criminal degeneracy. A hopeless drunkard, a sexual pervert, this man is eminently fitted for the task of torture and oppression in which he revels now. His case is the best illustration of the undisputed fact that the whole Bolshevist regime is led mostly by criminals or criminal degenerates, (p. 67.) The Executive Committee of the Association responsible for this pamphlet includes the President of Columbia University, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler; Thomas W. Lamont of J. P. Morgan & Company; James Speyer, and other Americans of great prominence. RELIEF BY MISREPRESENTATION An organization called the American Central Committee for Russian Relief has been another anti-Soviet Russia propaganda agency of considerable influence among wealthy Americans. With the generous cooperation of the press this body has contributed to American opinion a considerable supply of Russian fabrications. The object of the committee is stated to be relief of Russian refugees from Soviet territory, but it figures in the newspapers largely through the public utterances of its president, the Princess Cantacuzene, and of one of its lecturers, Hugh S. Martin, formerly chief of the United States Military Intelligence in North Russia. The quality of this propaganda and how it is disseminated may be gained by the following examples. Princess Cantacuzene spoke at a small meeting held at the Church of St. John the Evangelist on Waverley Place on January 31, 1920. The next morning the Times gave a whole column to an almost verbatim account of her address. The importance of the meeting as news, however, was obviously negligible. Princess Cantacuzene said in part, according to this report: When the first revolution occurred in Russia, rich and poor alike ioined in thanking God for the new day. . . . There was no class feeling and everyone was filled with a desire to develop a republic along the lines of the United States. * William Shatov, Chief of the Petrograd Police. 46 |