The daily times., 1921-08-06
SENATOR FRANCE HAS
FOUND NEW FRIENDS.

Senator France of Maryland has
found new friends in Soviet RUSSIA
to the extent that he has severely
criticised Col. Edward w. Ryan at
the head of the American Red Cross
who is in that country. France IN ms
criticism of Ryan talked so loud that
it was heard in the hotel and me
street in Moscow.
And SO the alteration continued
from the hotel to the street, from
the street to the station, where the
Senator declaimed with furious elo-
auence before a crowd of bewildered
Let's. He ''told the world, and told
it loudly, that he would bring Ryan
and the Red Cross before the plllory
of the American Senate and show up
their vices and corruption. 1t was an
unedifying7 scene, deeply regretted by
all the Americans present. 1t was not
easy to tell a Lettish questioner that
his wild-eyed, furious man, waving
his arms and shrieking threats at the
Der of the Senate of the United
States.
Aside from Senator France, who
admitted that he had nothing, but
Tchitcherins word as the basis of the
charges he made-the latter seem to
rest on the flimsiest foundation. But
the Bolsheviki are so crazed by sus-
.picion of all the world that they are
ready to take up anything.
1t appears, however, that a certain
allied agent did penetrate Kronstadt
not before, but during the revolu-
tion-on the pretext that he belong
ed to the American Red Cross. In
deed, he bore paper, procured with
out authority, with the letter-head of
the Red Cross, stating that he was
a member of tha organization, which
was untrue. AS for Colonel Ryan, he
! was in Paris at the time.
The Red Cross further incurred
the ire of the Soviet by feeding the
1, 5000 Russian refugees who crossed
II
when the revolution was crushed.
When Colonel Edward w Ryan,
Red Cross Commissioner for North
, Russia and the Baltic States, made
May, 1920, predicting the early fall
of the Bolshevist government, his OBJ
servations on which, that forecast was
based were regarded by high govern
ment officials as both important and
significant. He gathered his infor-
nation in the course of a tour with
the Esthonian Peace Mission. He
was regarded as an able observer of
Russian conditions, and what he said
was corroborated largely by informa-
ton furnished to the State Depart
ment through other reliable chan
nels.
Colonel Ryan is known to -1aroa
number of persons in New York
CITY, where he practiced his profess
sion OF surgery after coming here
from his native town of Scranton
Pa He was in hospitals or enpaead
IN private practice here until 1e12
"nen he was sent by the State, Ne
partment to the troubled State op
Iorreon, Mexico. His first missio,
Ior the government was enlivened
ny MS capture by a rebel cbiaft.in
VINO ied him out at sunrise next dav
De snot' but changed his mind an
pa lentiy because the young surgeon
preserved such rigid calm. He was
oue lnus for fifteen consecutiya
DAYS before his release
Dr' Ryan was one of the fret -
anS"er the call of the Americ.n D.
cross for physicians to serve il G.
va soon after the outbreak of tba
world War. Subsequently, ba
maoe Director Of the American Rad
ofoss Service Hospital, Unit No
IN belgrade, Remaining in th.t 80
rom October. 1915 to ootoso ~.
0' Dr. Ryan. with his unit was
three times captured bv the -. ~
Anstrians. Meanwhile he wasad
valiant fight against typhus and s,sa
pefsised or performed no fewer
than 5000 operations. -e"er
Returning from Serbia to Amar,c.> =