Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-02-21
TESTIMONY IS
 GIVEN SENATE
 BY MISS BRYANT
Spectators Ejected Because
 Of Kisses and Commotion.
GOT HER PASSPORT
 FROM BOLSHEVIKI
Ii People Oi Russia Want BolShc,- ism They Ought To
 Have It.

Washington. Feb. 20.-Spectators were cleared from the hearing room of the senate propaganda investigat- ing committee today 5ecanse misses, attempts to applaud and general com motion interrupted tha testimony of Louise Bryant, wife of John Reed an American writer recently returne1 from Russia. who, the witness said. was employed in the propaganda de- partment of the Bolsheviki govern ment. When the room was cleared Senator King picked up a book writ ten by Miss Bryant and asked were you a member of the international revolutionary propaganda. with which ciated?'
 "Yes,' replied the witness.
 Was q COmrade.
 Miss Bryant said she mad Bolshe- wiki passport when she went to StOtck- helm from Russia and admitted she was a comrade of the Bolsheviki She explained everybody is called com rade"
 "Would the Bolsheviki call rep resentative of the American govern ment comrade?' asked Senator Nel- son.
 ''Oh mo-" replied the witness be cause Mir. Francis was not popular. They called MT Robins (an American 1 Red Cross officially comrade. though l He was regarded as a real American 1 in sympathy with the revolution and real representative of America. ''' The witness at that point stated | that she wished to go into the records that the Soviet governmen was not responsible for the nationalizaticn of women.
 "The anarchists did that and they 1 were shot" said the witness. Visited PetrOgrad. 1 Miss Bryant said she went to Rus I sia as correspondent for the the Philadelphia Futile Ledger and that sho visited Petrograd and Moscow. She said it was true that she left Rus sig cn a >Bolsheviki passport as an 1 official courier for the Bolsheviki. Questioned about her present knowl- ! tdge of affairs in Russia. the witness l said she had secured her information from the man in charge of the F-:nish 1 information bureau. a Mir. Nourteva and also from Mir. Robins in New l York Nourteva had told her. she said, "that if there is any BOlsheviki propaganda in the United States, am it..
 The witness said when she was rassing through Finland. the White Guard came throuph the train. took some Bolshaviki off. and shot them. | Showed Passport.
 "Whv didn't they shoot you: you with Bolshevist seals on them?" asked Major Humes.
 CT showed them my American pass port"
 "You had passports describing you as 'n internaticnalist?" 1 "Yes. everybody who ever believed in. the leaeue of nations is an inter- nationalist replied Miss Bryant Miss Bryant said it was not true that the Soviet eovvernmtnt was sym pathetic with the Germans
 "Are you anxious to have the Bolsheviki retain the government in Rpssia?" asked Senator Nelson
 Well" said the witness. eff the people of Russia want Bolshevism 1 they ought to have It." Miss Bryant said she did not believe in the overthrow of the government i by force of arms and she didn't be. 1ieve anything like that would hap pen here unless there was much op. prtssiOn.
 Asked if she had spoken favorably in the United States of the Boishe. wiki. Miss Bryant said she had tried to make it understood that Bolshe- vism was simply social democracy.
 After much questioning. the wit ness said sht did not think Bolshe- vism would fit America" Ledger Denies RepOrt. Philadelphia. Feb. 20-The IPhila- delphia Public Ledger tonight issued 8 statement which it will publish edi torjally tomorrow. denvine that Miss Louise Bryant went to Russia as 6 correspondent of that paper Int statement in part says:
 Miss Louise Bryant erred in hel testimony before the senate propa
 ganda Investigating committee wher she said that she went to Russia as 2 correspondent of the Philadelphi; Public Ledger or that she had ere dentials from this newspaper. Tn, first knowledge that the management of the Public Ledger had of Miss Bry
 ant was when. upon her return iron } Russia, she offered fer sale nrsnn script recording her observations 1T that country. The manuscript was bought and published under her sig mature"