Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-04-09
The Allies in Russia
tcy CATHERINE prcshso,aky.1

/ 10y Catherine prcshkoNSky,)
7, happens very often that VIC do not
understands one announcer because We
c'prcss two different ideas thru the
scn:c word and cali quite different
yo"c p,iuns by the same name
Since my coming to the United
Sa'cS | hovc hccn asked asain and
1"aln wh-ihrr am for or AGAINST
".r'Crycnt!on." win answer plainly,
"a hrvn arEwcred before. that Nas
! Tor rendering Ru s.a general and mill
+ fary help While all the progressive
! forces in Russia, including the party
Z of socialists rcvolutionists. asked the
allies Tor help when the bolsheviki he
! ,~rycd Husa!a 20 the Grrmars and
! Count won Mirhach was ruling Ry%sia
thru tho serviie Genine and TrotsSy.
not single Russian hos ever asked
} tho allies for intervention
The difference between help ana in
; Prevention Is very simple. The United
states Of America has rendered gem
erGl AMI military help TO ENGLAND.
4 France, Belgium and Italy. and nobody
ever called il Intervention. First. the
! United states was fighting Germany.
! the common enemy OF the United
/ States and the allied countries, and
second. the United States landed its
military force upon the shores OF
I France at the invitation Of the psoplc
Inf France extended thru their gov
} eminent
The allies came into Russia after
3 the holsheviki had destroyed the Rus
Z san army and betrayed our country
ito Germany The collapse Of the Rus
sian armies made II possible for the
. Germans to transfer a great part Of
I their forces from the eastern front TO
the western and thereby TO endangcr
I the western demoCracies. Every one
who recalls the last German offensive
knows that there was not single mo-
mcnt more dangerous for the allied
cause than the moment Of this last
German rush towards Paris.
The bolsheviki destroyed the Rus
sian front and thereby increased the
powed OF German militsrism to an
unknown degree. II the United States
had not sent a powerful army to
France, Germany would now be the
victor. In addition 10 the crimes in
their foreign policy. which eliminated
IN the treacherous Brest-Litovsk
! peace" with German militarists, the
bolshcviki have committed innumer-
ahle crimes in their internal policy.
They nave destroyed all civil liberties
in Russia. freedom OF speech. of the
press. OF asscmhlage and of organiza
tiOn; they have filed the prisons thru
ont the country with their political
adversaries procIaiming enemies of
the people" not only the liberals. the
constitutional democratic party, but
also the party Of socialists revolution
iSts and the socieI-democrats menshe-
wiki, that is. the parties OF the Russian
neasantrv and proietariat They haze
instituted system of terror unequaled
in cruelty, and while hundreds Of in
nocent hostages would pay with their
lives for the ASA ss;nation or for the
attempt 10 assassinate a holsheyist
cnmmissaire, they did not punish the
Red Guards who assassinated the two
ministers of the provisional govern
ment, Kukoshkin and Shingariev. while
the latter were under bolshevist arrest
| lying SICK in a hospital
Among all the crimes Of the bolshe-
vikfs internal policy-if We call their
capricious regime of tyranny and
anarchy a policy-their greatest crime
| was the dispensing Of the constituent
! assembly. elected on the basis OF uni
versal. direct. equal and secret suff-
rage. BY this act the boishevist tyrants
/ have deprived the Russian people Of
! the possibility Of building up a truly
democratic government. government
| of the people. by the people and for
the people.
II would he a mistake 10 think that
after the constituent assembly was
! dispersed, and the Russian people de-
! prived of the right not only to govern
! themselves, but even to speak and 10
! think as they like, that the bolsheyiki
| -Lenine, T-otsky and others became
! the real rulers of the country. No,
| during this terrible period when We.
Russian democrats, saw our Russia
suffering and bleeding as never be-
( fore. the real ruler Of Russia was the
/ German en- AMBASSADOR, Count Won Mir
| bach, who moved to Moscow and daily
gave orders TO Lenine and TrotSky.
! The German armies. in spite of the
| peace" moved deeper and deeper into
| the heart of Russia. A great part OF
! these armies was removed TO the west.
and the cir was filed with rumors and
the presentiment that a new. a de-
| cis.ve German offensive would soon
| take place IN the west. an offensive
( with great chance for success, an
off ensive which might bring victory
| for German militarism, the realization
Of German domination thruout the
! world. Under such circumstances even
! the so-called socialists revolutionists
! Of the left. who had co-operated with
| the bolsheviki up TO the moment Of the
! Brest-Litovsk treaty revolted against
! the bolsheviki and the Germans, and
| organized the ASA ssination Of Won Mir
| bach. Lenine and Trotsky. in their
| servitude 10 their then powerful Ger
man masters. ordered the execution OF
many Of The Observation-Disclosures Of
| The left
! II was at this time that Russia called
TO the allies for help. not only for
general but also for military help.
| just as France and England called
| upon the United States for help when
| their extraordinary missions, led by
| Marshal Joffre and Lord Balfour Wis
| tied this country soon after this coun-
! tI.s -ntIe nce into the war. 1t is true
/ that at this time there was not an or