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...Russian press recently divulged the fact that the War Lord had addressed Bolshevik students on Aug. 1, the anniversary of the date 'Germany declared war on Russia, in a noteworthy anti-American speech. The War Lord found it something of a paradox that "America, which is supported by its industries and which helped to crush Germany in order to keep out a solid competitor, emerged from it (the War) with a pacifist reputation...
...fortnight ago, when the leaders of the old and new Europe were commemorating the tenth anniversary of the outbreak of the War, one voice that was not heard was that of War Lord Leon Trotzky, Commander-in-Chief of the All-Russian Bolshevik Army...
Clad in immaculate evening clothes, shod in shining leather, gloved in white kid, and wearing a glossy silk hat, Comrade L. M. Karakhan, first Bolshevik Ambassador to China, entered a golden state coach drawn by six ebony horses. He was accompanied by General Huang Kai-wen, Master of Ceremonies, and escorted by 24 cavalry outriders, as he was whisked off to present his credentials to Marshal Tsao Kun, President of China...
Despite the gorgeous capitalist disguise of Comrade Karakhan, he was an Ambassador without an Embassy. The Diplomatic Corps at Peking is composed entirely of Ministers, none of whom relish giving presence to a Bolshevik Ambassador, and they have done much to hinder the Chinese Government from handing over the old Russian Legation. But, through the reported efforts of Dr. Jacob Sohurman, U. S. Minister to China, they were expected to acquiesce in handing over the ex-Russian Legation to Comrade Karakhan...
...definitely to judge of its general benefits to mankind, yet the victory did result in preventing domination by autocracy, with all of its disastrous effects upon civilization, and the evidence is clear that the free peoples of the world will unite in resisting such domination." Upton Sinclair, "U. S. Bolshevik": "The world gained by the World War an opportunity to learn thoroughly that capitalist governments are incompetent to manage civilized communities, and that national competition for raw materials and foreign markets will wreck civilization during the present generation, if it is not checked by a system of international...