Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1919-1919
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...undersigned gladly accept the "Indignant Challenge" which appeared in the Friday CRIMSON. We can hardly believe that the gentlemen were even present at the meeting they denounce. Had they been, they must have noted that Mr. Humphries, while inclined to find considerable good in the Soviet regime in Russia, in no sense advocated Bolshevism, but confined himself to an instructive narrative of what he actually saw during eleven months in Russia. During these months Mr. Humphries was successively employed by the United States Committee of Public Information, the Red Cross and the Young Men's Christian Association. Mr. Humphries...
...internally and externally at war. Although the apparent tacit approval of the University may be explained by inadvertence or lack of information concerning the insidiously subtle propaganda of the speaker involved, (who outdoes Mr. H. G. Wells in his own "rayon" in picturing the delights and perfection of Soviet Russia to which even such eminent, advocates of the cause as Miss Emma Goldman seem loath to return) we feel that it would be salutory to have those persons, who are apparently the instigators of this movement which is attempting to insinuate itself into the University life, openly to declare themselves...
...there is any number of persons in this University, who seriously contend that the social and economic theories at present in practice in Soviet Russia are in any sense applicable to the traditions, institutions, and aims of this country, a frank and open statement from them to this effect would be welcome. F. P. MAGOUN, JR., 2G. W. C. BOYDEN, JR., 2L. S. C. WELCH 1G. G. C. BARCLAY 1L. G. A. BROWNELL...
While there he traveled over 20,000 miles, and studied closely the workings of the Soviet regime, during which time he met most of the members of the Soviet Cabinet, including Premier Lenine. Among other things he assisted in the smuggling of a million copies of President Wilson's "Fourteen Points" printed in German, into the Austrian and German lines...
...lecture, "Eleven Months in Soviet Russia" which includes 95 slides, has been enthusiastically received in over two hundred cities of the country, in which he has been lecturing during the past few months. It will be remembered that Mr. Humphries spoke at a mass meeting last month with Professor Felix Frankfurter '06 and Colonel Raymond Robbins. The lecture on Wednesday is open without charge exclusively to members of the University...