Parker on Propaganda

Alton B. Parker, head of the National Civic Federation, charged that the Russian Soviet Government is carrying on propaganda in the U. S. Senator B. K. Wheeler, "radical"

Republican, of Montana, said that such was not the case. Judge Parker replied to this reply as follows, by letter:

You know very well that the press of our country, including nearly all of the great newspapers, has freely published all the interesting and important official Soviet documents they could get hold of. The amount of this matter would cover many thousands of columns every year, much of it exactly as sent out from Russia by the Soviet propaganda bureaus. Even the papers most violently accused of being against the Soviets, like The New York Times, have printed a vast amount of this material--in fact, they have taken the lead in that direction. You know that The New York Times first printed 70 articles by Arthur Ransome, and has since published many hundreds by Duranty, the strongest pro-Soviet special correspondent who has yet appeared, and the only one of importance allowed by the Soviets to remain in Russia after the killing of Butchkevitch.