cted at effects in the field, it must be a source
of great comfort to Lenin and Trotsky, Tchitcherin and Peters and others
of their ilk, to know that their able, and in some case, unwitting
allies in America, who condone Bolshevist atrocities, apologize for
Soviet shortcomings, appear before Congressional committees and other
agencies and contribute weak attempts at defense of this Red curse are
all serving them so well."

"Seeing red," we see Red in many things that are really harmless. In
Russia, as in America, many false accusations and false assumptions are
made. We now know that of certainty the Bolshevik, or Communistic party
of Russia was aided by like-minded people in America and vice versa, but
we became rather hysterical in 1919 over those I.W.W.-Red outbursts, and
very nearly let the conflict between Red propaganda and anti-Red
propaganda upset our best traditions of toleration, of free speech, and
of free press. Now we are seeing more clearly. Justice and toleration
and real information are desired. Propaganda to the American people is
becoming as detested as it was to the soldiers. Experience of the
veterans of the North Russian campaign has taught them the foolishness
of propaganda and the wisdom of truth-telling. The Germans, the
Bolsheviks, the British War Office, Our War Department and self-seeking
individuals who passed out propaganda, failed miserably in the end.

XXX

REAL FACTS ABOUT ALLEGED MUTINY

Mail Bags And Morale--Imaginative Scoop Reporters And Alarmists--Few Men
Lost Heads Or Hearts--Colonel Stewart Cables To Allay Needless
Fears--But War Department Had Lost Confidence Of People--Too Bad Mutiny
Allegations Got Started--Maliciously Utilized--Officially Investigated
And Denied--Secretary Baker's Letter Here Included--Facts Which Afforded
Flimsy Foundation Here Related--Alleged Mutinous Company Next Day
Gallantly Fighting--Harsh Term Mutiny Not Applied By Unbiased Judges.

Four weeks to nine or twelve weeks elapsed between mailing and
receiving. It is known that both ignorance and indifference were
contributing causes. We know there is in existence a file of courteous
correspondence between American and British G. H. Q. over some bags of
American mail that was left lying for a time at Murmansk when it might
just as well have been forwarded to Archangel for there were no
Americans at that time on the Murmansk.

Many slips between the arrival of mail at Archangel and its distribution