The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-05-13
FORMER PREMIER
SAYS RUSSIA TO
LOOK To AMERICA
PRINCE LvoFF BELIEVES THAT
CONDITIONS ARE RAPIDLY
CLEARING UP THERE.
REFUGEES EAGER TO GET HOME
Prince Urges the People Of This Coun'
try to Study the Russians and to Get
Better Acquainted With Them.
Bonds of Sympathy.
BY PRINCE G. LVOFF.
Written for the United Press. }

Written for the United Press)
! PARIS, May I'll believe that the
situation in Russia Is now rapidly
clearing and that the time is not far
distant when the Russians shall see
our vast country again at work, help
| ing in the reorganization of the world.
| Thousands of Russians everywhere,
exiles as well as those at home, are
bending all their energies to sin
gle end, without regard for political
creed. We all realize, think, that at
time as potentious as this, all bag
CLING over differences Of politics must
cease if we do not wish to obscure our
aim. 1t is a time when the world
needs Russia, and when Russia needs
the world.
News which | received from the in
terror of Russia is encouraging. Think
ing men are doing their utmost. In
many cases, no doubt, their zeal is a
poor guide for their efforts, but there
is encouragement in the fact that at
least they are trying for the achieve
ment of the same ends. The result
will surely be good.
My message to Americans at the
present moment is to urge them to
study Russia, to get better acquaint-
ed with its possibilities, to cherish the
friendship which already exists be-
! tween the two peoples, to continue
the bonds of sympathy and faith and
good will.
| Then when the time comes, as come
| it will ere long, we shall count on
America to help gloriously as she has
always helped those who struggled val
iantly for the right. The new Russia
will need many things from America
it will need great gifts of charity, it
will need the utmost credits of Amer
lean brains and energy and organic
Study the Russian character and you
will learn to love the Russian. He
has his faults, but he has great virtues
as Well And they are the faults and
virtues of a virile race which seeks
and is worthy Of your friendship and
help.
| am chairman of the committee of
Russian Zemtsvos and Towns for the
Relief Of Russian Refugees. Our or
gani2ation is continuation of move
ment started early in the war to aid
our soldiers. The organization now
embraces all the leaders among the
two million Russian refugees who are
scattered throughout Europe. We do
not concern ourselves with politics,
for we are composed of men of all par
ties and all schools of political
thought.
We have been watching events in
Petrograd, and have been hoping that
some opportunity would come which
would enable us to help the thousands
who are suffering from hunger and
disease and privation there. Our re-
sources are limited, but we are ready |
to go with help and counsel wherever
we can do good and whenever the nee
essity arises. No one can predict when
that will be, but we are organized so
that we can do emergency relief in
stantly. We have been taking care of |
refugees in Europe for so long a time
that we can cope intelligently with
any new problem.
Most of the refugees wish to return
to Russie. They will do so with the
first opportunity and with one idea
only-to help build up their country in
the best and most efIicacious way
which offers.
In our work for the Russian refu-
gees during the past two years, we
have had enormous assistance from
America through the Red Cross, which
has furnished medical supplies, food
and clothing. Workshops throughout
Europe are giving employment to Rus
sian men and women and the mate
rails used in these workshops are
largely American. The finished arti-
cles are again used for relief purpos-
es. At our headquarters in Paris there
is steady file of men and women.
often with the children, asking for
food, clothing, money, or frequently ;
only for advice.
Perhaps the greatest problem which
the outside world must solve, is the .
exact method which shall be used i'm ,
helping Russia. The Russian psychol-
Dgy is perhaps a little intricate, and