The Washington times., 1938-01-14
The "WOrkers' Fatherland"


try the Communists in the United States want the
United States to turn itself into.
Alexandra Barmine was in Soviet Russia's dplo-
matte service for nineteen years, eventually becoming
Soviet Charge d'Affaires at Athens A few weeks ago
-r,oy :: Uon. it was reported that he had refused
an invitation from Moscow to come
Of HIS Lure on home, had resigned his diplo-
matte job and had fled to Paris saying that he feared
for his life and expected Soviet gunner would get
him in the long run wherever he might go. This was
the second of such incidents since Stain began bump
ing off his old friends in the worldfamous Soviet
blood purge.
The Times has induced ex-Comrade Barmine to
write of the experiences that led him. an enthusiastic
Bolshevik since the Russian revolution broke out in
his nineteenth year, to toss up his job and refuse to
go home. Barmine's articles make interesting read
ing for those who still think Russia is is becoming
the Earthly Paradise.
"Those who have been executed or have disap-
peared," says Barmine "were my chiefs, my friends,
my comrades"
They have taken simply to disappearing of late,
RIood instead of confessng in big public trials to
every imaginable form of treason. Barmine
F"Tge gives an interesting reason for this change
He says that Stain longer obtain confessions
for public trials because many have confessed ex
pecting enency and then been shot to death anyway
That he says, explains the execution without trial of
the eight Red army generals few months ago, in
Guiding Marshal Tukhachevsky.
AS the blood purge went on, Comrade Barmine in
his Athens office had reason to grow and more
uneasy.
During my last two months Charge dAtfare at
Terror Feeds uped 1 Wng to s: m NV cSefs
On Terror old did not answer my Letters my a dE n
ally was 0vet ue had expressed
about the Justice OF those % cary t5a ira I I M 0% ] o @ noS
to disappear as 50 many others have disappeared.
would run rnn remaining a in the service Of my Country
That is what Soviet Russia has come to, according
to this and many other witnesses, in the twentieth
year of the revolution that going to remake the
world. It is nation in error-n terror OF one heart
less despot who in turn lives in terror of the people
he has terrorized and who stops at refinement of
cruelty to maintain himself and his political machine
in power.
That has been the story of despots throughout his
tory. Terror grows by what it feeds on; revolution
breeds bloody tyrants and in the end eats its chill
dren Finally, rule, it gets around to eating the
tyrant himself as the French Revolution finally ate
Robespierre
We can't believe Mr.. Barmines ex-comrades in this
country will ever induce Americans to turn their
LOn 1nIO ndppy HunLug ground IOf IyidutS, III
Could 1t formers agents proVocateurs ana
guntoting sadists.
H0Ppe" HeFe' Stranger things have happened,
though. Who would have thought in 1740 that by
1776 colonial forefathers would be in open rebel
lion against England, or that they would win9 Who
at Versailles in 1919 foresaw Hitler rising to power
half-generation later?
Well, the masses don't put their paws into Com
munsts, Fascists' other worldsavers' bear traps
unless the hard up to the point Of despera
ton So it would to be the smart thing for those
of US who hope to avoid Communism Fascsm in
this country to be hospitabe and cooperative toward
any and all reasonably sound schemes for keeping up
mass buying power and prevent too great concentra
ton of wealth in too few hands. Such schemes
truly conservative. If they can be made to work.
they can conserve the profit SYSTEM and prevent its
overthrow by blind radicals its perversion by blind
reactionaries-and we don't know what else can.
the New YorkDa
WASHINGTON Moods