The Washington times., 1921-03-07
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Russia Tough Problemfor Pres
ident-envoy to Britain
=. Key to Attitude.
BY NORMAN HAPGOOD.

Two OF these 9hosts are IN = gen
erai way related. They are botA
spirits OF intolerance. one 10 the
question OF whether We shall keep
one Of the Presidential candidates In
prison any longer because he did not
| happen TO asru3 entirely with Mr..
Harding and n.e about the resent
war. The other 10 ths question OF
| keeping Central EUROPE oIt Vr ra W
materials BY. delaying the economic
| revival OF hussiA
The nrst act directly bearing on
The RussiAn situation would be the
| appointment OF George harvey as
AinuassAoor to Great Britain. The
most important steps towaru opening
.rade WIN Atussia are those being
lAken win has usual asviousuess. BY
| Lloyd George.
ihe critical. negotiations 30 far
have been ia Lonuon. The reports
seut over by our ambassador viii It.
acct the notions Of the Administration
ABOUT what the Iacts really are
GOBLIN STORIES ABOUT LENIN.
Harvey has written = lot about the
| Hussian situation, and IL mas peen ali
| stereotyped war-scAre SUM. with yoo-
AN stories about Lenin and Trolxky.
such negotiations OI 0urs. thereto, Q,
| - are Gonueclea with the London
neYotistions. Will nnd the dice hssv-
ny loaded by the usual new dis
coioration. made still more intense
Wy the bias OI the Ambassador.
Mr.. huSAes. OF course, next to the
Presidehl nImseIf. ts the key to the
problem. ine only chance OF his dnd-
| .ux u more creative course tnsn we
nave been following lies In his we'll
Snown appetite for facIA
IL he takes the things that are put
out ~ tActs by most OF the news
papers aud by those governmental bu-
reAus that have long sincs been urn
cd into propaganda departments he
VIII inevitably perform in the same
iutiie way that has prevailed ever
sines the sovieu have been In power.
NEWS FACTORIES AT WORK.
This arm gentleman with q head
comes into onice At = moment when
.he propaganda news centers in Hell
angfors, Copenhagen. Stockholm. Riga.
1lesal. London, Paris and wAshing-
Ton have got the Bolshevik govern
.nent topping. facing insurrections
| everywhere. This news comes out
every seven weeks.
Lenin dies once In ninety three
| days. He IL imprisoned by Tcotzky
twicc u year. Trotzky 10 imprisoned
by him about AZ often. Peayau. dis
content ts scheduled for alternate FRI
days. naturalization OF women. de.
structton Of all factories, complete
breakdown OF transportation were
mingled with overwhelming defeats
for the Soviet armies until all the
opposing armies were destroyed.
The prisoners taken by the invad-
ing armies Of Russian patriots sur
pass In total the population Of the
globe.
I have some hope Mr.. Hughes may
rise above this bunk. II he begins a
substantial and independent irvesti-
CATION on his own account. the foun-
dation is in the collection Of Russian
American official documents publish
ed under the auspices of the League
| Of Free Nations Association in New
York.
HUGHES IS WORKER.
| The most thorough personal inves-
| tigation recently Is that Of Brails-
ford For an earlier period the SOL
idest book Is that OF Raymond Robins
For the comment Of a distinGuishe ed
economic expert on the Krassin Lloyd
| George negotiations. a recent essay by
G. ID. II. Cole. may be recommended
| Mr.. Hughes Is a worker and he
might even run through the files OF
tho New Statesman and the Manches-
Then he will be prepared to TAX.
Washington and Helsingfors news
with a couple of bushels of salt.
| Mr.. Hughes also took a stand
against the lead In trying to protect
| the Ave Socialist assemblymen in New
York against abuse of their Consti-
tutional rights by tho Albany legis-
lature.
| About Mr.. Daugberty's conception
of the right of free thought I know
nothing. The hrst consideration OF
| the Debs case will fall to him. The
latest news / have heard from the
Atlanta penitcntiary Is that Debs has
been suffering from lumbago to such
an extent that sometimes he Is unable
| to move. II Dcbs should die in prison
the blot on our record will never be
forgotten
| DEBs LIKE A QUAKER
| In colonial times there were laws In
Virginia deporting from that colony
all members OF "an unreasonable and
| turbulent sort Of people commonly
called Quakers," who we're said In a
sweeping away to be guilty Of teach
| ing lies, false doctrines. etc"
Tho Quakers "are to be imprisoned
without bail until they arrange to
leave the colony and IL they insist on
| remaining they are to be put to
death" A heavy fne is provided for
any body who is guilty of entertain
ing any Quaker In or near his house
to preach or teach"
| Debs Is like the ouakers in his dis
position and in his views OF war. The
treatment we arc giving him in 1921
Is as reasonable as the treatment we
gave the Quakers in 1890; in 261
years we cannot be expected to have
changed our views about the wicked
| nHaa Of having a mlnnriix anininn-