Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-07
Head Of Red Cross Work
Advises Against Allied
Intervention.
SEES DANGER TO
EUROPE AND U. S.
Declares Intervention Would Ssiidify
Factions and Thus Strengthen Osl-
sheviki, Permitting Spread Of Ssnti.
msnt TO Other NstIons-Advissa
Against Official Recognition sf Del-
shevik Government.

Washington. March 7.--Intervention
in Russia was condemned BY Ray
mond Robbins. former head OF the
American Red Cross mission In that
country, tcstifyinS today before the
senate committee investigating propa-
unwise from the standpoint Of the
United States and the allies.
Mr.. Robbins said American soidiera
and munitions should not bs 1854 10
crush revolution. which he declared
represented the wishes OF the RUS
sian people.
Furthermore. he declared. II w0s mis-
opinion that intervention vouiA
sohdify Russian factions IN support
of the bolsheviki government, and
strengthen the bolshevist tsndeacies
In England and France and materially
assist In laying n groundwork Tor the
spread OF radical doctrines In the
United States.
Recognition Of the bolshevik SOW
ernment OF Russia was aAvaool
against, but the witness repeated tAAt
II the Russians wanted bohhevtsm
they should have e.
Robbins 6iamss Entente.
In recital which thrilled ana fAs-e
cinated his listeners Colonel Robbins
gave the Overman senate suhrom-
mittee his impressions OF the oolshe-
vik movement and some inside facts
concerning the reasons for its rise to
power.
1t was tale that might have come
from the pen Of a Dumas or nodded
under the masterfnl hand OF a De
Maupassant. It revealed secrets cf
the anbassadorial files in Petrograd:
it. told why the treaty Of Brsst-
Lltovsk was ratified. when neither
Lenine nor Trotsiey wanted il: IL ex-
planned why the allied powers inter-
vened with troops In Siberia.
Running thru II was the story OF
Colonel Robbins' intimate association
with Trotsky a,i Lcnine: his defiance
of their power and his efforts to hold
Russia In line as an enemy Of Ger
many after the bolshevists had gained
the ascendancy.
Allies Delay Blamed.
Standing out from the great mass
OF information in this remarkable
statement-the first public statement
Colonel Robbins has made since his
return from Russia-were these as
sertions of fast:
The Brest- Litovsk treaty would
not have been ratified by the Lenine-
Trotsky government II the United
states and England had made any re-
sponse to the appeals made by the
American ambassador, the British High
commissioner and others for economic
relief to the soviet government.
Lenine and Trotsky were not con-
sciously German agents; they were
surrounded by anarchists in Germany's
pay and to whom are chargeable most
of the excesses committed in the
name Of the sovietS.
Car r'otted Peace.
If the monarchy had not fallen the
czar would have constituted a separate
peace with Germany in thirty days.
| While English and American Off
cials in Petrograd were working vita
the bolsheviki leaders to keep them In
war against Germany, France was dr.
manding Intervention to protect tie
vast sums OF money which had been,
loaned by French bankers. to the Russ
ian autocracy.
, The Intervention IN Siberia was
a bad move, and merely served to stir
up the centuries old enmity asainst
the japanese, whom they d!s:rusted
ard desnisod