The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-02-10
MEETING HERE WAS
RED" PROPAGANDA
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Young women were Selling copies o.
a book. six Red Months in Russia.
/ At $50 a murmur ran over the
. crowd. and a group of people appear
! ed on the stage-Mr. King, Miss Bry-
! ant. Mr.. Williams, and man with
7 clerical waiStcoaSt and a standing
/ collar. It appeared that Mr.. King
I was the introduceT, Miss Bryant and
! the clergyman the decoration. There
were three tables on the stage. each
/ draped with the Stars and Stripes.
/ The meeting was opened by the
/ intrOducer and it very soon showed
, that he was no mean SpellbiadCr. 4
! 'home atmosphere" had to, be Great
! ed, and he did il most successfully
! folks were all here 10 get the facts
/ about Russia. The American people
! wanted 10 know the facts
Rolls RS Heavily.
q have fought in reform move
ments in half dozen cities CIe
named them and. having been an
! editor in Texas, with a six-Eiloater
/ in the riShthand drawer of my desk,
/ | am not exactly a fearsoDle man.
/ but | remember how doubtful I was
! when, some years ago, a friend in
: vited me to a meeting of Russian
revOlutionists trolling the IS leav-
! p
! tivated people; the women charming
| and delightful Now. those
+! young people who are gotnS to talk
: to YOU today have come from Russia.
! They went there, they knew what to
/ look for, and they have come. back
I with the facts.
/ All this and more OF the same kind
and Miss Bryant is introduced. Miss
Bryant appears a demure and pretty
girl, with q large hat, a stylish suit.
and gray stockings. Her voice is
high, but it has a plaintive note to H..
She amuseS the crowd, because, with
! the air OF an ingenue, she hurls darts
at Government departments, holds
people UP to ridicule. and with a fear
full voice appeals to. American fail
play to be just to a beneficent Boil
! shevist government and give it q
chance
Not Miss Bryant. r.
The crowd does not know that she
is not Miss Bryant at all. but Mrs.
John Reed, wife of John Reed-an
/ extreme radical. whose speaking ana
! writing in America were considered
I several times so dangerous . to the
winning Of the war that he was al
rested and forbidden to keep on-thar
| she shares and has shared his, views
and that during her six months in
Russia she was in no wise a dis
! interested. objective observer, but a
partisan of the fiercest sort.
But Miss Bryant was not accur-
! ate. and when she had finished her
speech she had told us nothing about
! Russia. We heard compliments for
| certain Bolshevist leaders, we heard
! gibes against their opponents, but
we heard nothing about Russia.
She told us ii was her honest opinion
that the secret documents, showing
BOishevist relations with the Ger
/ mans, were false. and she saws she
/ wrote Mr.. Creel TO that effect. She
omitted to say that the documents
had been passed upon, not by Nj.
Creel, but by historical and Russian
scholars, who. as textual critics, had
thrown out the documents which they
found false. and left the majority
whose identity was amply proven.
Says Lies Are Told.
Lies are constantly told about the
poor Bolshevist government" said
Miss Bryant. For instance. Trotzlly's
daughter is said 10 take large quanti-
ties of money out Of Russia" :
The little girl is only six years old
mischievously added Miss Bryant,
"and she is a very prececious child,
but, / am sure, she is not able TO do
that"
! Miss Bryant leaves the matter here.
as always. and does not tell the audi
ence that in September. not Trotzky's
little daughter, but the former Bolshe-
visit commissar Of finance, Mr.. Gullov-
sky. did, indeed. arrive in Stockholm
with a young lady and twcnty-one
trunks containing GOOOO.OOO rubles in
money, and a considerable quantity OF
:. platinum. whose price is four 10 five
times that of gold.
Miss Bryant told Us that the Boil
shevist minister in stockholm, Mr..
: Vorovslly. gave an American CORE
spondent two innocent and truthful
reels. But she does not tell as that
Mr.. Vorovsky was the head Of Boil
shevist legation in Stockholm, where
from twenty TO thirty persons We're
known TO be employed. and whose
sole function was the spreading Of
such propa Canda in Sweden as would
disrupt the Swedish state and destroy
the Swedish government, a govern
J ment which is a very democratic sort
of constitutional monarchy. and where
the cabinet is SOcialist-Liberal, and
headed by The famous Swedish Social
ist. Granting, who has been a partisan
Of the allied cause from the first.
Tells About Sehrader.
Miss Bryant tells US about Schra-
der. zone of the old conservatives Of
Petrograd." Schrader. who was an
ardent socialist. lived out Of Rus
STA for years. and when the BOIshc-
\ Wiki overthrow the Constituent As
sembly and violently seized the power
continued as the head OF the board
Of aldermen in PetrOGTad TO attempt
10 administer the city until the Boil
sheviki forced him out. The board
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