Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-03-07
POPULATION OF B0LSHE-
VIK RUSSIA ARE DYING OF
HUNGER BY THOUSANDS
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the American Red Cross mission to
Russia, told the senate investigating
committee today that there was
fundamental menace for the world in
Russian Bolshevism and suggested
means for combating its spread. The
witness said that a year ago Nikolai
Lenin, Rolsheviki premier had cor
rectly forecast how Bolshevism ideas
would take root in Bulgaria, Austria
and Germany in the order named.
Mr. Robins quoted Lenin as de-
claring that in his opinion the Ameri-
can government was entirely corrupt
and as adding:
I'VE challenge every government
We may be overestimated. but at the
same time we will destroy all MORT
bund political governments"
Unceasing opposition to the prin-
ciples of Bolshevism both in Russia
and in the United States was advo-
Gated by Mr.. Robins. but he warned
against military force and arbitrary
suppression of ideas. The witness
said the United States should send an
economic mission to Russia to aid the
people in obtaining the necessities of
life, declaring this the most effective
way of fighting Bolshevism. To COM
bat Bolshevism here, Mr.. Robins
urged that the people be allowed to
know the truth about its false teach
ings" and that existing evils in Ameri-
can economic and social life be rem
edied by law. Publicity, he added,
would hasten the reputation of Boil
shevism.
In urging withdrawal of American
and allied military forces from Rus
STA, Mr.. Robins outlined the policies
of the American and allied govern
ments, which he said led to inter
vention and told the committee that
the sending of the troops had helped
to precipitate the red terror.
The witness said the Russian soviet
government agreed in February, 1918,
to denounce the Brest-Litovsk treaty
and resume the war against Germany
If the United States and Great Britain
would assure cooperation, but that
despite his own efforts and those of
r. a. Il. Lockhart, British high COM
missioner, to induce the governments
to agree. no response was received
and the treaty was approved.
The Bolshevists do not desire rec
ognition by the United States, MI
Robins testified, but they would well
come assistance in restoring the eco
nomic life of the country. He ex-
planned that the Bolshevist leaders
feel that their position as interna-
tional revolutionaries would be weak
ened by formal treaties.
Asserting that Lenin prefers coop
GRAFTON of America, rather than Ger
many, Mr.. Robins said that unless this
country took the lead in peaceable
restoration of Russia. Germany in
evitably would obtain a new foothold
The witness believed that America
had failed to connect in this Rus
sian story" partially because of the
men sent to Russia to represent the
United States. He mentioned espec-
tally Elihu Root, who he said, was
attacked in Russia as having been the
man who tried to make the United
States safe for plutocracy." Other
factors, according to the witness,
were the stories told by Russians who
returned to Russia from the United
States after, the revolution. These
men seemed to have been living in
bad spots. Mr. Robins said, and they
brought back false ideas about the
United States, which they pictured as
"a heaven or capitalists and a hell for
workingmen."
Mr.. Robins testified that stories of
atrocities in Russia before his de-
parture were largely false declaring
he was Impressed by the lack of
destruction of life" and adding that
he believed it would have been much
greater in the United States under
similar condition