Excerpt from Shall Socialism Triumph in Russia

There is definite evidence now in the United States sufficient, I be Iieve, to prove that the leaders of the Soviets have not. Been pro-german but, on the contrary, if anything, pro-ally. Strangely enough, this evi dence is not allowed to reach the public. Colonel Raymond Robbins, former chief of the American Red Cross Mission to Russia and unofficial diplomatic agent of the United States Governments in contact with the Russian Soviets, who has more information on the subject than any for eigner alive, has such evidence. 80 has Colonel William Boyce Thompson and Major Thomas Thacher - both of the Red Cross Mission. All these men have been ordered to remain silent.

I, myself, and certain other Americans, who have had the opportunity to observe closely the character and actions of the Soviet Government, have been shut up by the simple expedient of taking away all documents and corroborative papers which we brought back with us from Russia, on the pretext of examination. Only those officials and correspondents. Who are opposed to the Soviets, for one reason or another, are allowed freely to speak or write their erroneous facts and their baseless opinions.

Besides these prejudiced observers almost all the news-sources con cerning Russia are German sources, whose object it is to discredit the Soviet Government. For instance, the complete Russian version of the brest-litovsk negotiations has never been published in this country, al though it is available; the American people must go to the version given out by Berlin, which was patently altered for both domestic and foreign consumption.

History will prove that, instead of plotting in the interest of Imperial Germany, the leaders of the Soviets attempted to enlist Allied aid in their hopeless resistance to the German advance. Some days before the ratifi cation of the treaty of brest-litovsk the Soviet leaders summoned the American representatives, and made an offer of cooperation with'the Allies, asking for supplies and technical assistance, stating definitely that if the aid were granted the Soviets would refuse to ratify the Brest Litovsk treaty, and that Russia would continue the war against Germany. This appeal was cabled to Washington, but never answered by the United States Government. And not only were the people of the United States: kept in ignorance of this communication, but I am told that the President himself was not informed until long afterward, if at all.

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