The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-18
RUSSIAN
PROPAGANDA
People fed Daily Through Press
With Appeals and Manifestos
from BoIshevik Head
Office.
[By Frank j. Taylor, United Press
Staff Correspondent

| [By Frank j. Taylor, United Press
Staff Correspondent
| NEW YORK, July 1S.-"Thesc APP
lpeals to the toiling masses the world
! over are not meant for foreign Con-
sumption. They are written for the
Russian proletariat."
That is the reply made to the
United Press correspondent in Mos
COW, following the criticism that ap-
peals made to the American work
man by wireless from Moscow were
too eloquent for American readers.
The bolshevik author of the procla-
nation in question had asked for
some constructive criticism.
The bolshevik foreign office spends
/ its time writing propaganda to the
world. The employees Of the foreign
office are specialists in agitation,
which the foreign office spreads by
wireless. Most of it never sees pub
location outside Russia, probably be-
cause the anti-bolshevik governments
have found this material SO biased
that they refused to transmit it.
This does not seem to daunt the
bolshevik foreign office, which, under
Tchitcherin, the red-bearded funny
little man who heads the department,
turns out reams of appeals to the
toiling masses daily. Tchitcherin
harbors an ambition that he will
some day provoke a worldwide revo-
luton but realizes the odds are
against him. He is convinced Of the
Importance Of keeping up these ap-
peals, and printing them for the
supplemented Russian, who feels
that he is leading the world to sal
walton. The Russian is led to be-
lieve that he is about three jumps
ahead of the bandwagon.
The foreign office is located up a
dingy fight of stairs in the back
floor of the once fine hotel Metro
pole. When confiscations were going
on, the live wires got the better car
peted rooms, but Tchitcherin is
happy despite this shabby deal play.
ed on him by his colleagues as long
as he can grind out eloquent propa-
ganda.
The Russian people are fed daily
through the press with these appeals
and manifests and proclamat1ons
Some of them are amusing. The
correspondent obtained some of the
most eloquent ones directed at Amer
leans to bring home. The bolsheviks
must have thought differently later,
for the appeals to the American
proletariat" were confiscated at the
border along with other propaganda !
which the foreign office heaps on
visitors.
According to "Tavarish'' Tchit- !
is "tabarish," or
comrade, in Russia-he has asked !,
for peace seven times during the ,
last eight months. These have been /
official requests to governments.
In April, when the Bullitt mission, i
made up of Americans, visited soviet I
Russia to find out conditions and I
earn what the bolsheviks would do, |
he sovietist say they repeated their
peace proposals. The bolsheviks are
bitterly disappointed that this mis-
sion brought no results.
According to Tchitcherin, the boil !,
,heviks offered to assume RESPONSE
,ility for payment of all the debts !,
Of The old Russian government to the /
lr;cnte They agreed to make good
csses sustained by entente citizens |.
Turing the revolution.
In addition, they offered trade ind
concessions, and are will !
ng to go even farther. They are
.eady to revise some of their main
,olshevik platforms to get peace, if
he bolshevik party can remain in
power. The bolsheviks VIII not re-
ign
With rebuff the only result Of his
appeals. the little man with the red
lair and whiskers, in an old shabby
,aggy suit and shawl around his
leck. is never discouraged and con-
.nues to draft new appeals, some Of
hem really intended for the outside
world, but most of them to bolster
tie courage of the Russian people.