French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1919-02-20
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Washing ,on, Feb, 12.-The bolshe-
VIk regime II Russia was described to-
day by Rev G. A. Simons, in testi-
c:cHy before the senate committee in
vestigating lawless agitation in the
United State, as a minority military
Dictatorship supported by terrorism
DR.. Sf1noAa, who for many years has
been head of the Methodist Episcopal
church in Russia, said most of the
bolsheVik leaders were Jews, many
from the eastside of New York, and
that they lad set aside large sums for
the spread of their doctrine in all the
countries Of the world.
The l. ". w. movement in this
county, Which the committee has In
cluded in it's general inquiry, was saiG
b. DR.. Simons to be identical with the
Ibo!shevists system.
BOlsheVi!l propaganda apparently is
being carried on in the United States,
DR.. Simons said, by means of speak
ers, pamphlets and articles in news
papers and magazines. He declared
that John Reed and Albert Rhys Will
liams, American writer's, had been
closely affiliated with the bolshevik
government in Russia and that Will
liams had come to this country with
"a quantity of bolshevik publications.
The witness said publishers of bolshe-
vik literature in the United States In
c1udei the Rand School Of Social
Science in New York; Charles H.
Kerr and company, Chicago; the Soc
iaIist Literature company, of New
York, and Novy Mir, Russian news
paper in New York
Lived in PetrOgrad
DR.. Simonds, whose headquarters
was in Petrograd, told the committee
John Reed and his wife, Louise Bry-
ant, were very close to the bolsevik
leaders in Petrograd and spent much
time at their headquarters. Reed was
described as persona grata to the
bolshevik government"
''Was he regarded by Americans
there as an American or bolshevi-
kip" questioned Senator King, OF
Utah.
GAS a bolsheviki," replied the Wit
ness. There were a numbec o.
American bolsheviki sympathi2ers
there. We referred to them as 'musIl
headed, middleheaded.'
Albert Rhys Williams frequently
participated in bolshevik meetings,
Dr.. Simons said, and was heart and
soul with them, speaking in very ten
der terms of them"
Major E. Lowry Humcs, who is III
recting the inquiry for the COMMITTEES.
inquired if it were not true that Will
liams came to this coulrry as repre-
sentative of Lenine and TrotAky anu
was to organize a Russian infOrma-
ton bureau in this country for the
Russian government The witness
aid he understood Williams was 10 do
hat work.
Chairman Ovcrlltlr Interrupted t.
nouire: "HoW about Raymond Rob
ins?" He referred 20 the head of the
American Red Gross mission in Rus
sia.
He was suppose! by the bolshe:;kl
t. be the best American of them all"
replied DR.. Simons.
Major Humes read into the record
the text of an official order of the Lee
rine government dated December l3'
1917, appropriatins 100000 rubiea
for the spread of bOlshevIk prOpaga n
ua throughout the world.
Led BY Jews.
DR.. Simons said almost from the
beginning of the y lshevi& regime the
was led AMI agitated by |
apostate Jews, most of whom pore
German names originally, but who lat
er changed these to Russian names.
He presented list nf bolshevik leac-
,rs with their Russian assumed names |
a-G there original Jewish names
Scores of New York Eastside Y1ddlsh |
came to Petrograd shortly after the
,verthrow of the Kerensky govern
ment the witness said, and he attr:-
Duted much of the success of the boz
,bevilx movement to aid from the low
ar Eastside of New York.