The Washington times., 1921-04-29
FACED RED DEATH;
SAYLEN|M DOOMED
Officers Who Saw Russia at
Close Range Predict BoIshe-
Wk Collapse.


NEW YORK, April 2o.-rwo men. q
British secret service agent ana an
American army intelligence officer,
whose paths crossed three years ago
by chance. when they dined at q Rus
sian inn 900 miles north of the Arctic
Circle. met again across q luncheon
table at the Hotel Astor. They were
Sir Paul Dukes and Capt. Hugh Mar
tin. Both had been invited to address
the members OF the Merchants As
ISOLATION OF New York on Russia
From Within"
Sir Paul and Captain Martin had
not laid eyes on each other since they
said good-by and went each about his
own country's business, and neither
had any idea OF the identity of his
fellow-speaker until the chairman.
William Hamlin Childs. started to in
troduce one to the other
EXPELLED BY REDS.
Captain Marein spent three and one
half years in Russia under tho
Lenin. Sir Paul. who spent much Of
his youth in Russia and took part in
the 1917 revolution. was expelled 5y
the Bolsheviki, but returned as q re-
cret agent of his government and re-
NAMED in the country disguised ~
a Russian workman.
Captain Martin declared that BOZ
shevism. not American and allied
blockade, was responsible for the
economic plight OF Russia.
They tell you that Petrograd 1ni
other cities of Russia are dying be-
| cause we blockaded Russia" he said.
"A greater lie has never been spread
upon a credulous people. Russia 10
dying today, her industry is gone be-
cause Bolshevism has destroyed indi-
vidual initiative and human ambition.
There is just one way for Russia -
be reconstructed. and that Is for Conn
munism to fall.
IF Lenin wants to give in, as some
people would have you believe he has
apparently given in. he has just one
step to tsko-the re-establishmen Mt
| OF private property and the re-estao-
lishment of reward for individual
effort.
BOLsHEVIk AIMS.
THE Bolshevik has peculiar
philosophy. Where he finds mind
lie thinks he can readily convert he
! seeks to convert IL. Where he finds
mind he thinks he cannot readily
| convert he seeks to bewilder II. He
has ben bewildering the mind OF
America most remarkably He stands
ready to make any promise any
where. any time, to anybody. just so
long as he can promote the cause
of Bolshevism. and the moment he
ends that promise no longer serves
his purpose he stands ready to
break 1t and laugh in the face Of
the man who has been duped.
"A Bolshevik official told me ON
my last trip to Moscow they mad
one motive destruction OF all organ
lied governments and the setting up
of the World Soviet Republic.
asked:
do you mean to tell me you are
going to try to destroy my govern
ment?'
mo he said. I do not tell you
We will try to do II; j tell you to
your face we will do it: we will
wreck you from within as we wreck
ed from within
81 laughed at him. but did not
laugh. long after / returned to this
country and saw what they were
doing. Let us not be duped!
They tell you Bolshevism is chang
! ing. I tell you that Bolshevism will
change only when Bolshemism falls
When Lenin begins to change his
policies of communism he knows bet
ter than any other man knows that
1t means suicide. He Is not the sui
Gliding kind"
morous incidents In which he had OUT
witted the soviet officials during his
surreptitious sojourn in Russia.
CLIQUE RULES RUSSIA.
"Russia, ">he said, sis dominated BY
tiny clique. The population is soma
| thing like 150.O0O.OOO According 10
hn i'm, >txr k.v
Lenin himself the numerical strength
of the Bolshevik party amounts to
roughly half million; that Is to say.
less than one-half OF one per cent Of
the entire Russian nation,
"If you go and ask the Russian
worker or the Russian peasant, they
will tell you this Ia not a Dictator
ship of the proletariat, but dictator
ship over the proletariat."
Spasmodic attempts Of the workers
to rise against the Bolshevik govern
ment had failed up until now. Sir Pa al
said. because OF the intricate system
Of espionage. modelled after thar rf
Czarist days and the stern methods OF
cruel repression utilized by the Len n
government. The peasants. he added,
had held aloof from the couuter-reyo-
lutions led by kolchak and wrapgel
because they feared thosecInoycmcbys.
II successful, prcsaFed reaction and
the return OF the landlords to owncr-
shin OF their farms.
Put the outbreaks Of the workers
will continue" Sir Paul went on, "The
whole Of Russia Is simply simmsring
with discomfort and will revolt. And
the peasant is playing waiting game.
when he cen he perfectly sure there
is no chance Tor complete reaction,
then ho will :urn, and he will turn
| Violently against lis opprAHSpra to-