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.Democratic Russia would become speedily thegreatest war prize the world has even known.The Committee designed to have an educational center in each regiment of the Russianarmy, in the form of Soldiers' Clubs.These clubs were organized as rapidly as possible, andlecturers were employed to address the soldiers.The lecturers were in reality teachers, and itshould be remembered that there is a percentage of 90 among the soldiers of Russia whocan neither read nor write.At the time of the Bolshevik outbreak many of these speakerswere in the field making a fine impression and obtaining excellent results.There were 250in the city of Moscow alone.It was contemplated by the Committee to have at least 5000 ofthese lecturers.We had under publication many newspapers of the "A B C" class, printingmatter in the simplest style, and were assisting about 100 more.These papers carried theappeal for patriotism, unity and co-ordination into the homes of the workmen and thepeasants.After the overthrow of the last Kerensky government we materially aided the disseminationof the Bolshevik literature, distributing it through agents and by aeroplanes to the Germanarmy.If the suggestion is permissible, it might be well to consider whether it would not bedesirable to have this same Bolshevik literature sent into Germany and Austria across theWest and Italian fronts.EIGHTHThe presence of a small number of Allied troops in Petrograd would certainly have donemuch to prevent the overthrow of the Kerensky government in November.I should like tosuggest for your consideration, if present conditions continue, the con [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]