Evening star., 1927-05-30
HERR|CK ATTACKS
RED PROPAGANDA
Accuses Soviet of Paid Cam
paign Throughout World
as Sinister Move.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, May 30.-American Ambas-
sador Myron r. Herrick, speaking at
the American Military Cemetery at
Suresnes today, declared that the rul-
ing powers of Soviet Russia were en-.
gagged in paid propaganda activities
throughout the world and that the
limited States would not tolerate the
spread of bolshevism to its shores.
Declaring that modern sclentlhc
methods were being applied TO the
scourge of war, the Ambassador SAD
that these modern scientific methods
are now somewhat belatedly, being
actively applied to the scourge OF Dol
Shevism."
Choice Of People.
"I believe" he continued, that the
people in every country have got 10
choose between order and anarchy
between honesty and thievery. BE-
tween everyday virtue and crime.
Either we believe in orderly society,
or we don't; if we do we ought TO use
all the power within us to defend ana
advance it. The impudent, mischleVous
interference of paid, organized prop
aganda throughout the world has gone
ers, l have been forced by these
events, to view with increasing appre-
hension this sinister movement.
"As we stand here beside the graves
of the men who gave up their lives
in one of the great wars of liberation
we may well ask ourselves what IS
going to protect us from this en-
croaching peril, which bids fair to be
as disastrous as the one which cost
them their existence.
Worse Than Nero.
Declaring that the leaders Of the
| Soviet regime do not speak for the
great mass of Russian people, Am
bassador Herrick said that the Boil
shevist system thus far seems to the
world in general more tyrannical and
oppressive than any preceding des-
potism.
"Now a diseased democracy may be
as grave a peril as the maddeSt king.
an insane nation, worse than Nero
The Ambassador continued, land 1
insist that it is not incumbent upon
us Americans who fought seven
year war for the purpose of securing
for ourselves the right to life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness to sit
quietly by while a band of men who
have made themselves the masters Of
a kindly and talented race, attempt,
with fiendish ingenuity to inject a
fatal poison into our citizens and to
undermine the institutions which have
brought comfort and happiness to our
continent.
Recalls Russian Ships.
1--WE shall never forget the Russian
ships which sailed into New York
Harbor during our Civil War, bring.
ing strength and confidence to a war-
torn country; we still believe that the
errand of that fleet continues to trans
late the feelings of the mass of Rus
slams for the American Republic"
The ceremonies at Suresnes consti-
tuted the principal observance of Me.
mortal day in the vicinity of Paris.
Detachments of Republican Guards,
French cavalry and infantry were
present as well as hundreds of French
children who came to the cemetery
with their arms filled with flowers
10 decorate the graves of the American
dead.
Pershing Hon0rs Dead.
The American lads lying beneath
wooden crosses in France received
their measure of commemoration to-
day in the observance of American
Memorial day.
Gen. Pershing, their commander;
Ambassador Herrick, high officials of
the French government and repre-
sentatives of the American, French
and British veterans societies joined
in honoring the hero dead.
A special service was held in the
American Cathedral in Paris and sim
liar ceremonies in<g~the American
churches in other cities and towns.
The French joined with the Ameri-
cans in decking with flowers all the
American war cemeteries. The iso-
lated American graves in the French
cemeteries were not forgotten, each
receiving it's tribute.
The wreath of red and white peonies
placed in the battle cloister of the
American Cathedral here by Capt.
Lindbergh before his departure for
Brussels was among the profuse floral
tributes exhibited there.