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...Farson's patience and energetic bonhomie were rewarded; he did well enough to set up his own selling company. Then came the Russian Revolution, in which, in spite of his good friend John Reed's hot tips, he had taken no stock. When his business and night life both ended, he went to England, got a commission in the Royal Flying Corps, and was sent to Egypt. A bad crash left him with a troublesome leg, which has cost him a total of three years in hospital. With no job, money or prospects he married an English girl...
Lawson bit, sent him. In a 26-ft. sailboat the Farsons chugged, sailed or were towed from Rotterdam to the Danube delta. Husband Farson's news-dispatches paid for the trip. Thereafter for eleven years Farson covered the Eastern Hemisphere, from Gandhi to Stalin to Ramsay MacDonald, for the Daily News. Finally he was given the coveted London post, held it for four years, resigned because the News considered his viewpoint had become too Anglicized. Back again in the U. S., with a 21-year career behind him, and no longer quite so "naïve and fresh...
...chaos of a revolution; from this new social order, much confused theory and little fact has passed out into the world of other nations. While writers have written of a vague Social Experiment, propaganda of all kinds has tended to confuse the actual Russian scene. Negley Farson with a photographic eye and a clear reportorial style has observed contemporary Russian life in the closest possible way and, in "Black Bread and Red Coffins", has written a compelling book about...
...presentation of the facts Mr. Farson has neither spared nor struck at the communistic rule. Pointing out that only one out of every hundred Russians are Communists, he presents a picture of one hundred and twenty millions of ignorant peasants, submerged in squalidity and often bewildered by the complete overthrow of the world of their fathers, 'being whipped into shape by the young Communists. In the Communists he finds a "new priesthood" who neither drank nor believed in God "because both of them clouded one's brain," whose courage and self-denial he finds comparable to the Jesuits, whose motto...
...terrible," cabled Correspondent Farson. "I stood within five feet of the Sikh leader as he took the lathi blows. He was a short heavily muscled man, like one of the old Greek gods...