Word: pettits
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...Russia and the Allies" is the subject of the fourth of the Liberal Club Russian lectures to be given in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock by Mr. Walter C. Pettit, assistant director of the New York School of Social Work. Professor Arthur N. Holcombe '06, of the Department of Government, will preside at the lecture, which will be followed by discussion from the floor...
...Pettit had his first opportunity to study conditions in Russia in 1916-17, when he was attached to the American Embassy in Russia and was entrusted with the interests of the Austrian and German prisoners in the southeast of Russia. After the Revolution of 1917 he left Russia by way of Siberia, studying the country as he travelled through it. On his return to America he received a commission in the United States Army as a captain, attached to the General Staff in Washington in the Russian Political Division of Military Intelligence. After the Armistice he went to the Peace...
...Walter C. Pettit, one of the leading authorities on the Russian situation, will be the speaker at the fourth of the Liberal Club's series of lectures on Russia and the Revolution, to be held in the Living Room of the Union tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. Mr. Pettit will speak on "Russia and the Allies" before a meeting open to all members of the Union...
...General Staff in Washington in the Russian Political Division of Military Intelligence, as an expert on the Russian situation with the American legation in Paris after the armistice, and finally as assistant to William C. Bullitt, who was in charge of the "Bullitt Commission to Russia," Mr. Pettit is widely recognized as one of the few authorities who really know the Russian situation today from the inside...
...know what Captain Pettit is going to say in Cambridge on Thursday, but I do know that the Allies have conducted their Russian policy with all the silliness of which human beings are capable. The important question is, are we going to continue our folly? Krassin, the head of the Bolshevik economic activities, is now in Copenhagen, and the Entente is trying to decide whether or not trade will be permitted. Quieting the world by refusing to allow Europe to get food and raw materials from Russia would be a logical continuance of the brains we have shown thus...