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DEPORTED REDS
! WILL GIVE SOULS
TO GET HOME
Lambert. English Writer, De-
Clares One Trip to Soviet
Russia Knocked All the BoI-
SheviSm Out of Him.
written for the international News
Service by Ambrose Lambert, For
ner Correspondent In Russia for Lon
don Daily Expressly

written for the international New,
service by Ambrose Lambert, For.
mer correspondent In Russia for Lon
Don Daily Expressly
LONDON, July 30.--I have Just re-
turned from soviet Russia after a pro-
: aonged visit, and am not a Bolshevik.
remained too long to become one.
Russia is the place effectually to cure
any tendency to Bolshevism, providing
you stay long enough. There is not one,
venture to say, Of those Russians
whom the United States deported back
10 their native land who would not
give his or her heart and soul to be
sback again in the United States.
learn their real views. l will not indi-
cate their identities, because of what
know Of the conditions in Russia.
Had the duration Of my stay in Rus
STA been the fortnight to which Litvi-
noff (whom personally like as I like
many others whom / metz in his clever
ness limited me in his permission to
visit soviet Russia, should probably
nave come away convinced that every
thing in the Bolshevist garden was
lovely, and communism was workable
ideal stultified In its realization by OPP
pressive capitalism.
But l was permitted to stay on with
the unattended result that I caught
sufficient glimpses of the real naked
conditions to realize that Bolshevism
deserves no place in the scheme OF
Western democracy and that its great
est friends outside Russia are its great
est enemies, the men who overadVertise
1t and create for It an attraction, dan
gerous only by making mystery OF 1t.
Truth About Russia.
The truth about Russia today is that
the tyranny Of a minority under car
ism has simply been replaced by an
other minority tyranny every bit as
ruthless, but without the glitter, glamor
and bright lights of the imperial regime
The Bolsheviks number. according tC
their own figures; not more than 600,-
900. They are ruling a population OF
160.000,000 because they happen to be
the only disciplined and organized force
that exists in Russia today. There is
considerable analogy in the state OF
Russia and that Of Ireland, where the
terrorist group constitutes such an in
finitesimal proportion of the population
Facts have to be faced, and the Boil
sheviks are ruling at least sections OF
the big cities, such as Petrograd and
Moscow. They are not ruling the peas
ants, who are reveling in a prosperity
, OF food and paper money but Suffering
from an acute poverty OF essentials OF
life such as clothes and salt. The
question naturally arises, Why do not
the peasants--numbering, as they do
over a hundred millon-revolt? The
answer is obvious-lack of organization
The same answer applies to the de-
creasing multitudes in Moscow and
Petrograd
In addition, there is the terrorism
The famous secret police of czarist days
has been replaced by the secret police
Of the Bolsheviks, both admirable as
instruments of repression. Public
physical outrages-that is, wholesale
slaughters-no longer exist in the big
cities. Yet there continues the policy
of secret arrest Imprisonment without
trial and without charges, or extraord-
irnary commission, as 1t is euphemistlc
ally termed, is over every man and
woman living in Russia today.