The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-03
MUST ACT ON CONCERT SAYS
 BARON ROSEN

Philadelphia, May 3-The problem of Bolshevism can only be solved by all civilized mankind acting in con cert to put it down with the strong arm. declared Baron Roman R. Ros- en, formerly Russian ambassador to the, United States, in an address de- lfvered here last night before the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
 The triumph of Ro1shevism, said Baron Rosen, would mean the utter ruin not only of the 'classes'' but of the "masses''
 eff Bo1shevism be not now extir- paeed root and branch and if 1t be suffered to spread any further 1t might ultimately come to mean the doom of our race and civilization" he said. Referring to the horrors of the Bolshevist regime in Russia, Bar on ROsen said that since the publica- ton of official reports thereon by American and British representatives in Russia, no fair-ninded person may doSrbt their reality.
 The Baron referred to an interview with Lenine published in the New York Times recently in which the in terviewer concluded as follows: Some of his remarks are sufficiently frank and illustrative of the sinister form of moral insanity, which distinguishes the Bolshevist mind. to be 8 terrible warning to Western Europe"
 He also quoted from a letter he had received from a distinguished Eng 1ish statesman who wrote: There are persons, not 9 few, who refuse to be- 1ieve in the truth of the abominable crimes which continue to be commit ted by the Bolsheviks and extend some sympathy to them merely be- cause they profess to be the friends of the proletariat.' This is one of the things which make one feel as if the world had gone med.'
 Reference vas made by Baron Ros- en to the picture of the "appaIing sufferings of the Russian people left alive In the doomed capital Of what waS once the Empire of Russia" as drawn by Leonid Andreeff and he quoted tho editor of the newspaper published by the Russian Information Bureau in New York as expressing the hope hat the "parlor Bolsheviks'' would read this appeal and would un- derstand ''the crime they are com mitting in going about and speaking of the regime of murder in Russia as a new and higher form of demo- cracy."
 Looking to the future of Russia, Baron Rosen said: ''No one can tell as vet when and how the time will come when the world will again be- hold Russia reconstituted as a politi- cal entity and able to resume her place in the family of nations and her status as one of the great Powers.
 "F'or the present all our hopes seem to lie In the evolution out Of the pre- vailing chaos of military dictator ship such as must always be the out come of a. prolonged state of anarchy, if the teachings of history are to be believed.
 Some indications of the possibility of a similar development are already discernfble. Admiral Kolchak, the head of the Siberian Government, having secured the recognition of his authority by General Denikine and other commanders of loyal Russian troops, has, 1t seems, begun to use in his public utterances the firm 1angu- age of a dictator conscious of his power and determined to render his will supreme. The task awaiting him the task of establishing the reign of law and order and of reuniting the shattered nation-is one of colossal ma gniture and uneQualed difficulty. To cope with it successfully will re- quire the strength of giant, the strength of 8 Napoleon or a Peter the Great. In working it out he will sorely need the undivided moral sup port and such material assistance as may be found possible to extend to him from all well wishers of the Rus sian people and all those who desire that Russia should be enabled as soon as possible to resume the place be- longing to her by birthright in the family of nations and her status as one ok the great powers. This task once accomplished it will be for the Russian people themselves to decide under what form of government they will desire to live
 Now, in this connection, would refer to an opinion one hears some times expressed by well meaning people, namely that the Soviet gov ernment after all represens the ma tority of the people of what was once the Empire of Russia. This delusion is apparently a fruit of the curious fascination which the establishment of the autocracy of the proietariat in Russia exercises over the minds of the people totally ignorant of the condi- ton of abject wretchedness to which BolsheVism and it's organ the Soviet government have reduced a once great and prosperous nation The fact however, is that this so-called government is bitterly hated by the overwhelming majority of the Russian people, and not the least so by those unfortunates who, to save themselves and their wives and children from starvation, are forcibly compelled to give 1t their reluctant services"
 
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