Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-09-11
JEWS IN RUSSIA
LOYAL TO ALLIES
individual Exceptions, But
Sympathetic as a Nation,
Says A. J. Sack.
STAND FOR DEMOCRACY

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, September IA. ].
Sack, director Of the Russian infor-
! nation bureau in the United States.
issues the following statement:
IAN Associated Press cablegram
from Petrograd Of September print
ed in American press today tells that
three Jews, Trotzky. Kamenev and
Sverdlov. occupy important positions
in the so-called soviet government.
This cablegram may produce a
wrong impression as to the role the
Russian Jews are playing in the boil
shevik movement which brought the
new democracy to the verge Of ruin.
I wish to state that the Jews in Rus
STA behaved most periodically in the
highest sense Of the word not only
after the March revolution, but even
before the revolution while being
oppressed and tortured by the cars
government, together with best rep
resentatives of Russian people. They
understood the historical sense of the
great war and rushed into the Rus
sian army fighting brayely for de-
mocracy even under the cars ban
nerS.
Opposed to Bolshevism.
after the March revolution the
Jews in Russia took a definite stand,
supporting the provisional govern
mont and opposing the bolshevist adj
venture. Not speaking about the mid
die class, the well known Jewish la
Dor party 'bund' took such definite
stand supporting the provisional gov
eminent against the bolsheviki that
! Lenine himself once said that the
| 'bund is even worse than the cadets
There is not a single branch Of Rus
sian culture to which the Jews in
Russia did not make valuable contri-
| buttons.
There is not a single liberal or
| revolutionary party in Russia in the
ranks Of which Jews did not serve the
great cause Of Russian liberty.
'In the ranks of the constitutional
democrats we find such names as
Iollos. Prof Gertzenstein, vinaver and
Sliosberg; in the ranks of the social
| lists revolution we find the names of
Gershuni. Gotz and Miner; in the
ranks Of social democrats the names
| were and are Russian patriots in the
highest sense Of this word; all of
them proved their devotion to the
| cause of Russian liberty; all of them
| Will the exception Oh those VINO alec
| before the worlds conflict opened
held up the allied cause and supported
| it with all their authority as cause
of liberty and democracy.
Mentions Only a Few.
1.-THE Associated Press cablegram
while mentioning that Trotzky, Kane
| new, and Sverdlov are Jews, does no
mention that Dora Kaplan, who sho
| Lenine and was executed by the bolshe
wiki. is Jewess. It does not mention
that Kamkov, whose real name is Katz
one Of the leaders of the socialist revo
lutionists. who was executed by the boil
sheviki, together with Maria Spirado
nova, for the assassination of the Ger
man ambassador, Won Mirbach, was
Jew.
And as far as we can Judge from
the name of the young man who assas
sinated Field Marshal Won Eichhorn wa
also a Jew. The presence of severa
Jews among the leaders of the bolshe
Wiki will indeed be used by reactionarie
to stir up anti-Semetic propaganda
Tens Of thousands of innocent Jewisl
lives will probably be the payment TO
mania grandioza' of Trotzky. But |
should be stated before the civilize
world in the name of justice that Their
are many Jews who fight activel
against the bolsheviki as danger t
democracy. and that the Jews as q ma
ton respond to the allied cause in Rus
l. ia."