The literary digest . ses, who are waiting an opportunity eitherto escape or to overthrow^ Bolshevism. Activity by agents so obnoxious and cruel that there is cigrowing fear of a terrific pogrom when the terrorists areoverthrown. And in the same dispatch we read further: Dr. Simons explained carefully in his statement that he wasnot anti-Semitic, that many of his best friends were Jews andthat he knew the great majority of the Jews, both here and inRussia, were utterly opposed to the Bolshevik program andwere ready to stand shoulder to shoulder with others in fightingthe red flag. He knew ther
The literary digest . ses, who are waiting an opportunity eitherto escape or to overthrow^ Bolshevism. Activity by agents so obnoxious and cruel that there is cigrowing fear of a terrific pogrom when the terrorists areoverthrown. And in the same dispatch we read further: Dr. Simons explained carefully in his statement that he wasnot anti-Semitic, that many of his best friends were Jews andthat he knew the great majority of the Jews, both here and inRussia, were utterly opposed to the Bolshevik program andwere ready to stand shoulder to shoulder with others in fightingthe red flag. He knew there were hundreds of rabbis ready tohelp, he said, and in his addresses around the country on thesubject he had been greeted by many Jews who thanked him fortelling things which they declared they knew to be true and whichthey felt the public should know. It was generally believed. Dr. Simons said, that many of theBolshevik leaders had changed their names in an effort to make The Literary Digest for February 22, 1919 13. Copyrighted by Underwood ^ Unrterwood, New York. A BOLSHEVIK. RIFLE-CLASS ABOUT TO GRADUATE AS SHARPSHOOTERS. Bolshevism appear a Russian movement. He declared he didnot believe it would have been possible for it to succeed withoutthe help from New York. With the Bolsheviki in power, he said, many of their agents,among them some of the most cruel, were Jews. The countryhad been flooded with proclamations in Yiddish, which had notbeen liked by the Russians. Altogether such a storm of hatredagainst the Jews had been brewing that hundreds had said to him: We know this is not a Russian Government. It is Germanfirst and Jewish next. Very soon there is going to be a bigpogrom. So wide-spread was this feeling, he added, that many of thepeople who had told him this and who happened to be Jews,were sending their wives and children out of Russia. Some highly educated Russians, generals, intellectuals andpeople of that class, he said, believed that there is a secret society
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