ot enough. Distortion must be added. "The power is in the
hands of a few men, mostly Jews" (an appeal to race hatred), "who have
succeeded in bringing the country to such a state that order is
non-existent. The posts and railways do not run properly, every man who
wants something that some one else has got, just kills his opponent only
to be killed himself when the next man comes along. Human life is not
safe, you can buy justice at so much for each object. Prices of
necessities have so risen that nothing is procurable. In fact the man
with a gun is cock of the walk provided he does not meet another man who
is a better shot."

Was not that fine stuff? Of course there were elements of truth in it.
It would not have been propaganda unless it had some. But its falsities
of statement became known later and the soldiers bitterly resented the
attempt to propagandize them.

The effect of this line of propaganda was at last made the subject of an
informal protest by Major J. Brooks Nichols, one of our most influential
and level-headed American officers, in a letter to General Ironside,
whose sympathetic letter of reply did credit to his respect for other
brave men and credit to his judgment. He ordered that the propaganda
should not be further circulated among the American soldiers. It must be
admitted that the French soldiers also suffered revulsion of feeling
when the facts became better known. The British War Office methods of
stimulating enthusiasm in the campaign against the Bolsheviki was a
miserable failure. Distortion and deception will fail in the end. You
can't fool all the soldiers all the while. Truth will always win in the
end. The soldier has right to it. He fights for truth; he should have
its help.

Our own military and government authorities missed the main chance to
help the soldiers in North Russia and gain their most loyal service in
the expedition. Truth, not silence with its suspected acquiescence with
British propaganda and methods of dealing with Russians; truth not
rumors, truth, was needed; not vague promises, but truth.

In transmitting to us the Thanksgiving Day Proclamation, our American
diplomatic representative in North Russia, Mr. Dewitt Poole, published
to the troops the following: "But so great a struggle cannot end so
abruptly. In the West the work of occupying German territory continues.
In the East German intrigue has delivered large portions of Russia into
unfriendly and undemocratic ha