East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-07-19
RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA
SPREADS BY WIRELESS
Foreign Office Up Dingy
Flight of Stairs, Sends
ElOquence Over World.
BY FRANK. TAYLOR

| Omitted Press Staff Correspondent. }
NEW YORK, July 19.-''These ap-
peals to the toiling masses the world
over are not meant for foreign con-
sumption. They are written for the
Russian proletariat." IS.
That is the reply made to the United
Press correspondent in MOSCOW, fol-
lowing the criticism that appeals made
to the American workman by wireless
from Moscow were too eloquent for
American readers. The bloshevik au-
thor of the proclamation in question
had asked for some constructive cri-
ticisn.
The bolshevik foreign office spends
its time writing propaganda to the
world. Employees of the foreign office
are specialists in agitation, which the
foreign office spreads by wireless out
side Russia. probably because the anti
bolshevik governments have found this
material so biased that they refused
to transmit it.
Funny Little Author
This does not seem to daunt the boil
shevik foreign office. which under
Tchitcherin. the red-beardcd funny lit
tie man who heads the department.
turns out reams of appeals to the toll
ing masses daily. Tchitcheriu harbors
provoke q worldwide revolution. but
provoke a wiroid-wide revolution. but
realizes the odds are against him. He
is convinced of the Importance of
keeping UP these appeals. and printing
them for the simple minded Russian,
who feels that he is leading the world
TO- salvation. The Russian is led to
believe that he is about three jumps
ahead OF the band-wagon.
The foreign office is located up
dingy flight of stairs in the back floor
Of the once fine hotel Meteropoie. |
When confiscations were going on, the |
live wires got the better earpeted |
rooms. but Tchitcherin is happy des- |
pite this shabby deal played on him by |
his colleagues as long as he can grind |
out eloquent propaganda.
The Russian people are fed daily |
through the press with these appeals
and manifests and proclamations.
Some of them are amusing. The cor /
obtained some of the most |
ones directed at Americans to |
bring home. The bolsheviks must /
have thought differently later. for I
the appeals to the American prole-
tariat" were confiscated at the border, :
along with other propaganda which
he foreign office heaps on visitors.
requests for Peace
According to 'sTavarish" Tchitcher-
is ''tavarish." or comrade
n Russia-he has asked for peace
seven times during the last eight
months. These have been officia re-
quests to governments.
In April. when the Bullitt mission,
made up of Americans, visited soviet
Russia to find out conditions and learn |,
What the bolsheviks would do. the So
'ietist say they repeated their peace
proposals. The bolsheviks are bitterly
disappointed that this mission brought
10 results.
According to Tchitcherin, the boil
heviks offered to assume responsible
ity for payment of all the debts of the
Id Russian government 60 the En-
ente. They agreed to make good los
es sustained by Entente citizens dur
ng the revolution.
In addition, they honored trade and
1dustrial concessions. and are willing
D go even farther. They are ready to
evise some of their main bo1shevik
latforms to get l,eaee, II the Bolshe-
TX party can remain in power. The
olsheyiks will not resign.
With rebuff the only result of his
ppeals, the little man with the red
air and whisksrs, in an old shabby