Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-02-13
WIDE CAMPAIGN
Of PAGANDA IN
AMERICA IS PLAN
Of BOLSHEV|K|
Head of Methodist Church in
Russia Says Soviet Govern
ment Organized by Men
From New York Ghetto,
HUGE SUM SENT TO
u. S. FOR PUBLICITY
American Speakers, Writer'S,
Pamphlets and Newspapers
Used to Spread the Doctrine
of MiSruIe.

of MiSruIe.
EBy MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wtRsl
Washington, Feb. 12-The Bolshe-
vik regime in Russia was described
today by the Rev. G. A. Simons in tes-
timony before the senate committee
investigating lawless agitation in the
United States as a minority military
dictatorship supported by terrorism.
DR.. Simons, who for many years has
been head of the Methodist Episcopal
church in Russia, said most of the
Bolshevik leaders were Jews, many
fro mthe east side of New York and
that they had set aside large sums
for the spread of their doctrine in all
the countries of the world.
The |. w. w. movement in this
country, which the committee has in
cluded in its general inquiry, was
said by Dr.. Simons to be indentical
with the bolshevist system.
Bojshevik propaganda apparently is
being carried on in the United States
DR.. Simons said, by means of speak
ers, pamphlets and articles in news
papers and magazines. He declared
that John Reed and Albert Rhys Will
liams, American writers, had been
closely affiliated with the Bolsheviki
government in Russia and that VIII
liams had come to this country with
a quantity of bolshevik publications.
The witness said publishers of bolshe-
vik literature in the United States in
GUIDED the Rand school VI social
science in New York; Charles III. Kerr
g. Company, Chicago; the Socialist
Literature company, New York, and
Novy Mir, Russian newspaper in
New York.
Americans in Russia.
DR.. Simons, whose headquarters
were in Petrograd before he fled the
country last october, told the com
mittee that John Reed and his wife,
Louise Bryant, were very close to the
Bolshevik leaders in Petrograd and
spent much time at their headquar-
ters. Reed was described as per
soma grata to the Bolshevik govern
ment so that they wanted to make him
consul general in New York
WAS he regarded there by Amer
leans as Bolsheviki or American
questioned Senator King of Utah.
"As a Bolsheviki," replied the wit
ness. There were a number of Amer
lean Bolsheviki sympathizers Shere.
We referred to them as "much head
ed muddle headed
Albert Rhys Williams frequently
participated in Bolshevik meetings,
DR.. Simons said, and was heart and
sould wit hthem, speaking in very ten
der terms of them"
Major e Lowry Humes. who is di-
recting the inquiry for the committee
inquired If it were not true that Will
liams came to this country as rep
of Lenin and Trotzky and
was to organize a Russian information
bureau in this country for the Rus
sian government. The witness said
he understood Williams was to do that
work.
Chairman Overman interrupted to
inquire:
How about Raymond Robins?' He
referred to the head Of the American
Red Cross mission in Russia.
He was supposed by the Bolshe-
Wiki to be the best American of them
ALL" replied Dr. Simons.
1000, 900 Rublcs SIush Fund.
Major Humes read into the record
the text of an official order of the
Lenin government dated December 49,
1917. appropriating two million rubles
for the spread of Bolsheviki propa-
ganda throughout the world.
1.-THE struggle against the war and
can lead to complete vic
tory only if conducted on an inter-
national SCALE" said the order. ITO
this end the council of peoples COM
missary orders the appropriation for
he requirements of the revolutionary
movement to be put at
he disposal of the foreign represent
atives of the commissariat of foreign
affairs, two million rubles."
DIR. Simons said that almost from
he beginning of the Bolshevik regime
The movement was led and agitated
1y apostate Jews, most of whom bore
German names originally, but who
ater changed these to Russian names
He presented a list of Boshevik lead
srs with their Russian assumed names
ind their original Jewish names.
Scores of New York east side Yiddish
,ame to Petrograd shortly after the
overthrow of the Kerensky govern
nent, the witness said, and he at
ributed much of the success of the
3olshevik movement to aid from the
over east side Of New YORK.
DR.. Simons explained that he did
lot mean to cast reflections on Jews
n general. He said the better classes
hoped for the overthrow of the pres
INT regime and that many Jewish
'abbis had thanked him for exposing
he situation within the Bolshevik or
yanization.
The witness declared not more than
me -fiftb af 40
represented in the Boishevik move
nent, that 80 per cent Of the peas
tnts and probably rs per cent Of
were not in sympathy
with the Lenin government which he
described as dictatorship Of the pro-
etariat.
DR.. Simons said that in a prominent
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