Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1919-02-23
LENINE POLICY IS
ONLY EXPERIMENTAL
Has One Purpose and Is Indifferent
As 10 Means To Ic
Used.
RUSSIA WAS OPPORTUNITY
Ambassador Francis Gives New
Light on Inside History Of
Bolshcyism.
ny GEORGE r. BYE

tplle OF AL lUlP'l NuHit'H w '"''''''
aud friends that he return 10 Amer
lea to tnke long rest for thorough
rccuperatlon. Ambassador David IL
Francis will be back In Russia in a
short time.
no made this positive statement
TO me today at the United States
navy hosI tai whore he haH been
recovering from major operation
on his bladder early IN January. Ho
leaves this afternoon for Paris at
the call OF Secretary Lansing.
The Ambassador Ia still weak. but
has been able TO get about London
10 fulf,i few Of tho many invita-
tlnns proffered him. Hc has had
months OF excruciatlng palm. and II
is the effect and memory Of this.
rather than tho operation, that has
cut into his vlRor.
mo. must get back 10 Russia,
and quickly. I am STEPPED In Rus
san atmosphere and should be there
every minute until this bolshcvik
chaos II under control and peace and
civilization arc secure" no said. DO
YOU realize that until November
when | was carried on "a stretcher
Olympia, for tho trip 10 England.
had never been off Russian soil for
n time dating back TO II months he.
fore the collapse OF the Russian
c2ardom ?"
Army Doctors Operate.
Doctors at Archangcl deHpnlred of
relieving the distinguished ~. Louis
an. former governor OF Missouri and
owner OF the 81. Louis Republic, bn-
cause OF the lack OF surgical equip
ment for 80 delicate and dangerous
an operation on man OF the am-
bassad doris age. Early In November
he cabled thN state department OF
his physical crisis and received In
struotions TO get Off to England on
the Olympic ut once, Secretary
lansing also warmly praised the
ambassador for his rare devotion 20
duty and his capable performance
OF his intricate tasks.
when Mr. Francis reached Britain
he was near death. Scottish doc
tors treated him for 10 days and
then sent him off TO London spe-
cialist who would not operate but
prescribed apparatus he would have
IN use regularly to live. When Sec
retary Lansing, then In Paris, heard
Of the am mbassa doris serious incapac~
ity. he sent two army doctors. spe-
cialists OF Johns Hopkins university.
10 attend him. They advised an
operation. which he underwent two
DAYS later and was able to walk In
three weeks
The Russian situation.
ITO appreciate how many factions
there are In Russia said Mr.. Fran
cis, "you should know there are as
many types OF socialism being prae-
vced or advocated there as We have
Mad political parties In America In
all our history.
"Lenine 10 the brain and head OF
bolshevism. He is a very learned
man. I met him In petrograd when
went az dean of the diplomatic
corps thore. and accompanieds by
the heads of governmental missions,
to demand the release of the Ru-
manian minister who had been i'm
prisoned In Peter and Paurs.
"Lenine In out to make an expert
ment IN extreme radical socialism at
whatever the cost. He took money
from the Germans. He would have
taken II as freely and gladly from
America or England or Japan II II
had been offered him. He will not
stop at anything INSCRIPTIONS II he
can submergc the world In horrible
there " possibility Of better gov
crnment being evolved,
"The church In n noncntity with
f.enine. Nothing ls sacred TO hlm.
Marriage and divorce. as now being
practiced under bolshcvlsm. require
nothing more than couple an
nouncing TO the janitor OF their
apartment that they are married or
have decided TO become unmarried.
Women are becoming nationalised.
and this already has become effec-
tive In some districts. Their childrev
are the property OF the bolshevtk
regime, and are taken from their
Db,hers Inviolability does not at
tach to any womans person. she also
Is the property OF the regime which
collects. or IL supposed to collect, so
many rubles for each wanton act.
Surprising Combinations.
rLenlra has been angered hv the
refusal of the menshlviks to support
him. They are not so radical as the
bolshevlks. He tells them they Will
gain many Of their ambitions II hol-
shevism triumphs. and none II II
falls.
'It is. on the surface. n surprising
thing that so many Of tho mQnprchist
marty are wildly supporting Lenine,
hut they have n purpose. They be
lleve that II The extreme rndicallsm
~ thoroughly experimental with. the
people will be 80 repealed and dis
gusted there will he final swing
back 10 the monarchial system. or
any system 1WvIug no element Of,
radicalism lt"is their hope that
bolshevism will not he moderated
until II has burned itself out
"You understand, OF course, that
Ienine Is not concentrating on Rus
via. He is spreading his propaganda
20 the whole world, But II Is Russia
unfortunately. which is least able 10
resist him, Only 10 per cent OF the
10000 600 Russian people are edu
Gated and that 10 per cent II 50
over educated that flocks OF factions
are the result
Army Dissipnted.
General order No. ! TO the Rus.
sian army is what knocked the
foundations from under the great
empire, II provided that soldiers
should elect their officers. At that
time Russia Ind called up 100000
men, and actually had 100000
under arms. II was proposed to call
up 100000 moro and but for boil
shcvism Germany would have been
quickly overwhelmed and the wal
wouln have been over at least year
earlier.
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