Evening star., 1919-03-12
ASKS ALLIES TO ACT
|NRUSS|AAT ONCE
Former Grand Duke Michael
ovitch Urges Intervention
to Avert Chaos.
ALLEGES REBUFF IN PARIS
By the Associa ted Press.

By the !Associa ted Press
PARIS, March I2.-Former Grand
Duke Alexander Michaeloviteh, who
arrived in Paris recently from the
Crimea, told the Associated Press to-
day that unless armed allied interven-
ton in Russia began at once the situa-
tion in Russia would become so hope
lessiy desperate that it would take
years. perhaps decades, to restore
semblance of order and bring about
peace in eastern Europe. The former
grand duke, who is a brother-in-iaw of
the former emperor, continued:
4 do not ask the allies to fight for
US. We merely ask them to keep or
der in the territories wrested from
eolshevism by the governments al
ready fighting the soviet.
Il came here in January in an at
tempt to help my country as a private
citizen acquainted NitE conditions in
Russia, l thought 1 would lind justice
and sympathy at the peace conference.
but I have been disappointed. as /
found visible only personal intrtgues,
party politics and national egotism-
Says Mr. Wilson Declined to Hear
"I requested President Wilson to
receive me- but he replied through his
secretary that he was too busy with
peace conference matters What mat
ter can be moro momentous to the
peace conference than the Russian
problem? asked to be allowed to
go to England, but was refused a
passport yet they received Kerensky.
] dare not request permission to visit
America, not wishing to invite a re-
buff"
Referring to the proposed conference
on the Princes Islands, the grand duke
said the proposal was mistake, as ii
gave the bolshevfki strong weapon TO
WELD in Russia over the covering
population. The bolsheviki are claim
ing, the grand duke added. that the al
lied governments have recognized them
because they feared bolsheviki.
His Kinsmeu Shot Without Trial.
.'On January 25." the grand duke
continued, seven days after the Princes
Islands proposal, the bolsheviki led out
my two brothers and two cousins from
the fortress of st. Peter and st. Paul
and shot them without trial They never
would have dared to do this unless they
had been sure of the moral support az
forded by the semi-recognition by the
peace conference.
Had President Wilson come out
strongly and surely with a repudiation
of and non-recognition of the bolsheviki
it would have encouraged governments
warning against them. Bolshevisn viii
be the devil in the future league Of na-
tons"
Discusses Conditions in Russia.
The grand duke was somewhat skepti-
cal whether royalty was thing of the
past. He then reverted to conditions
in Russia, saying:
What we want from the allies is q
frank statement Of whether they intend
to intervene in Russia or not, or
whether we have to look elsewhere for
salvation. Under their present state of
mind the wouid-be ruling classes in
Russia probably will look to Germany
for help and the Germans understand
how to deal with the bolsheviki.
'It is my opinion that the Spartacan
movement in Germany is kept alive only
as means of biackmail against the al
lies. When the preliminary peace is
signed, when Germany has used the
Spartacans to the utmost to blackmail
the entente into sending food and
granting merciful conditions Of peace,
when Spartacism has served its pur-
pose, it will disappear.