The Washington times., 1935-04-29
DEATH AND FEAR
RULE LAND,
He SAYS
r. H. Sanger and Wife Find
Conditions There Worse
Than Under Cars
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frankly of our experiences and
findings in this series Of articles
which will deal with famine
and forced labor; with cruelty, ex'
ploitation and SufferiCg-readerS
are entitled to some knowledge
of my background" You should
have opportunity to judge
whether I am a competent OBJ
server.
I graduated from st. Marks
Preparatory School at Southboro,
Mass, in "a, and Harvard in '28;
after which spent a year and
q half in travel. Returning, I
completed a postgraduate course
in Harvard business school in 81.
I worked for a short time in Wall
Street, and for a year in the
Bureau Of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce in Washington.
I'd had an intensive education,
butreSsed by practical contact
with the peoples of the world and
their problems. This chiefly dur
ing depression.
Friendly to Communism
Certainly I was emotionally
moved toward Communism. It did
not seem to me right that one man
should have millions, while an
other lacked the price of cup of
coffee. That in a rich country
men and women must work for 10,
eight, even six dollars a week. And
I had seen misery in many other
lands.
Even so, my approach to the
subject was cautious, through cold
logic, hard study. My conversion
was completed when attended a
Socialist night school while in
Government service in Washing
ton. I was converted, I thought,
by solid economic thinking:
Pla nne economy, Communist
style, was the need of America.
AS for that, I know now that
Communism looks so good on
paper-and until it meets human
nature. Then the fine theories
break down.
Mrs. Sanger'S conversion to
Communism had come primarily
through study of the social sciences
while at Wellesley.
Entered Russia in 1888
We entered Russia via Lenin-
grad on June 80, 1888. We left
Russia via Chepetova, a small
border town, westward from Kiev,
on June S, 1884.
We entered as workers, bearing
q letter from the central execu-
tive committee, Communist party,
U. S. A.; and letters from prom
inent Communists to Soviet Off
Gals and others, which gave us
entrance to Communist circles not
open to tourists or newspaper cor
respondents.
VariouSly, we held jobs on a
Communist newspaper, covering
industry in the Moscow area; on
a farm, in a metalurgical plant,
in the movie industry, in social
service and in government of.
flee.
Since We came not to "look,"
but to work, soon we were free
of "intouriSt" with its specially
managed hotels, carefully plotted
sightseeing trips, and it's guides.
About half the latter are G. P. u,
agents. The rest have attended
schools where they are fought
what lies to tell tourists who ask
probing question:,
Many Sections
So freed, and after we had per-
fected our Russian, we travelled
10000 kilometers on trips which
included the Moscow-L eningrad
area, the Volga Valley, North eau
casus, Kuban Valley, Ukraine, the
central "black earth" region. In
short, the chief industrial and
agricultural regions of European
Russian. Industrial plants we
visited, number in excess of 30;
State and collective farms and
''communieS," nearly 20.
Our establishment regarding
communism was gradual, reluct,
ant, but complete. I still feel
that we must take aggressive
steps to end unemployment-but
by no Socialist or Communist
method.
No SweatShop labor here even
approaches the exploitation Of
RusSia's masses today.
I learned that millions of peas.
ants had been forced to work for
wages which did not even keep
them alive.
In none of the SO countries
which I have visited have ever
seen such human misery as I
witnessed in Soviet Russia.
Appropriate to an Introductory
article, some major conclusions,
briefly outlined:
/. thought that the rumorS of
famine that I had heard were
capitalist propaganda" until I
saw with my own eyes how ter
rible was the food shortage in the
u. s. S. r.
Famine was at its peak-fn the
Ukraine, North Caucasus, particu-
larry in the Kuban region; in the
mid-Volga, the "black-earth region"
south of Moscow, in parts of
Siberia-when we entered Russia
in June, 1888. And the starvation
death rate continued high until
September.
But no word of this was printed
in Moscow. RumorS were denied.