New Britain herald., 1919-04-12

sIncvism--Arc Everywhere Present and Arc Nurturcd by Atmosphere of Social Unrest.
 New York, April 12.-Baron Rosen former Russian ambassador to the United States and one of the peace plcnipotentiaries who settled the war between Russia and Japan in an ad- dress today before the Brooklyh chamber of commerce, his first puphc uttcrance since arriving in Ameflca' Rn exile from his native land, declai ed that it was the deadly poison ol Bolshcvisln which brought on the de- feat of Russia and next of GerHldhS md that it's sudden rise and stupeh- dous growth" should be q solemn warning to the ruling classes Ill all bGlligerent countries.
 Russia Temporarily Out.
 Prussia as 2 political entity has temporari,y- ceased to exist" said u3aran Rosen. '"There is at present no political party or body of men which could be held to be entitled to enter upon international engagements Tn the names of Russia and the Rus sian nation-leaSt of all that small group of demented fanatics with thelr following of murderous bandits. who have usurped power by violence, Who maintain their tyrannical power by a regime nf terrorism such as the world has never seen, who have completely ruined and destroyed the soc'al .fab- rics of the state and who have turned what was once the empire of Russia Into q wilderness of primitive bar barism, a prison, lunatic asylum and 8 slaughter house."
 Germs Everywhere Present. ''The germs of this deadly disease, Bolshevism, although lying dormant, were present and are still present everywhere said the speaker, bred and nurtured by the atmosphere of social unrest, an inevitable accom- paniment of the wonderful achieve ments of modern civilization which are doing so much to emphasize and render more glaring the contrast be- tween the luxury and ease of the few and the want and limitations of the many, condemned to a life of inces- sant toll, joyless monotony and. anN- ious insecurity" a1@ffa sHFa
 Situation Not Exaggerated.
 The former diplomat, who recently arrived here from Stock oln, where he had fled with his wife and daugh- ter, said that "the appalling gravity of the Russian situation cannot possibly be exaggerated'' and that the official reports of the British Consul General Lockhart, recently published, are sui ficient to make one's hair stand on end, but they fall far short of the reality of affairs under Bolshevik regime.
 Army Weary of War.
 Defeat of the Russian army did not cause the disease" Baron Rosen ex plained, declaring that it was the prolongation of the war with it's at tendant suffering and misery which created among the 15,000:0 900 to IT, 000,000 Russian soldiers and sailors true representatives of the peasan- try which constituted the bulk of the population of Russia and which was the mainstay of her power and pros perity-the conditions leading up to the revolution of March, 1917, which although inspired by the Duma lead CTS from the very opposite motives. was actually accomplished by the mutipous garrison and revolutionary workmen of Petrograd and was an expression of the revolt of the people against the war"
 BOlsheviki Promised Peace.
 The Bolsheviki, the speaker said, promised immediate peace and this gained the support of the people. Quoting from a letter which he wrote 10 a friend in Petrograd. in July, 1917, Baron Rosen said that the toilng masses of the world were awakening to the fact that the awful crime of the war and it's prolongation has been and is being forced on them by their rulers as an outcome of policies which to these rulers represent the tempt ing phantoms of power, of hegemony of prestige, of revenge, of markets and Of expansion, but which to the masses present themselves merely as shibboleths devoid of meaning ir terms of the life of plain men and women, for the pursuit of which however, they have had and are still expected to have to pay with the lives of millions of their sons and brothers with millions upon millions of ruined homes and with all the untold suffer ing and misery wrought by such 3 war upon such a gigantic scale.
 Looks Into Future.
 Tt further means" Baron Roser read from his letter, that when thu day of their final awakening shal have dawned upon the masses the. will make it 9 day of reckoning witt their rulers and that the presen fratricidal war between the nations may resolve itself into a fraticidal ant suicidal war between the masses ane the classes within the nations"
 Russian Question Complex.
 Discussing the problem of the i'm mediate future of Russia. the forme ambassador said it is 'one of unex ompted difficulty" Its solution is re 0uired in the interest of all mankind he declared, adding that If BolsEe, ' ism be not now extirpated root aue branch and if it be suffered to spreae