The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-13
A Close Study OF the Red Gear
and the Soviet RuIe.

In his address on Armistice Day
before the American Central. Commit
tee for Russian Relief ELiHU RopT.
who headed special mission to Rus
sin, said that in his belief the Boil
shevist rule would end in "a COM
paratively short time" He asserted
that this was the general judgment Of
the world. The reason for this world
belief Is very clearly set forth In the
interesting series Of articles written
by Captain FRANCIS McCULLAGH for
the Sunday Magazine section of The
New YORK HERALD.
Captain McCULLAGH gives US n
real picture of the Red Car when he
describes him most bourgeois per-
son. dressed in rusty black, with trou-
sers somewhat baggy at the knees.
and az n man who discounts even his
most terrible sayings by the business
like evenness of his delivery and his
habit of occasionally inserting his
thumbs in the armhOles bf his waist
coat. "a gesture which displays a
slightly protuberant abdomen" Cap
tain McCULLAGH completes this pic
ture by adding that LEVINE has a
scanty reddish beard. bald head,
with dull, notified and not shiny.
billiard ball hairlessness, eyes 'ar
apart and with a cast in one of them.
and broad face, with dim, dis
turbing suggestion of Asia"
His fanaticism has cast osit all
fear; this too In spite Of the fact
that "outlawed by every government.
mathematical by every church, cursed
by his millions of victims, he can
never leave Russia alive, he cannot
stay in Russia and live"
An understanding of the situation at
Moscow or Petrograd may he gathered
from study of the strange weller of
people who come to these cities on mis-
sions. There are groups of foreign
capitalists seeking acknowledgment Of
all the Indebtedness Of the Cars Gov
eminent and hunters for concessions
which would make them millionaires
and who would let no consideration
of sentiment, religion. nationality or
civilization stnnd in their way" There
are Coreans working for the indepen-
dence of Corea: Pan-Mohammedan
committees who would drive the Brit
ish from Persia and India, and cen
trail Asiatic fanatics whose object is
to create chaos in Turkey and Egypt
and to deluge half Asia with blood.
These representatives of dangerous
and desperate peoples are received by
the Red Car as accredited amba ssa-
doris and he signs agreements with
them as prime ministers OF Western
nations sign treaties for advancement
of friendly commercial relations.
In his second article. which will be
published in THE NEw YORK HERALD
tomorrow. Captain McCULLAoH will
treat vi ibt tHuolN NVuiitlOuS III
Moscow. the severity of the life there
and the eaEerness of the nation to get
away from Soviet rule. The value OF
this article'and of all of Captain Nc
CILLAGH's articles is that they are not
mere impressions hut the result OF
careful study and investigation by
man thoroughly familiar with his sub
ject and trained as a critical and
sympathetic observer. Captain Nc
CULLAGH went to Russia with no
BIASED opinions. and with no inter-
ests, either those of the Bolshevists or
of any one of the various Russian
factions. to serve. He sought only
the truth, and that he is writing for
THE New YORK HERALD readers.
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