Son Baldwin

Stanley Baldwin, British Conservative, has a son--Oliver. By the ironic fate which decrees such matters, Oliver is a socialist. Last week he published a book Six Prisons and Two Revolutions, the story of his gruesome experiences in Anatolia and Transcaucasia in 1920, and 1921. Extracts:

"The terrorist Artabekov was sent from Moscow to Armenia to be placed over the Cheka. This man had earned fame by executing his prisoners himself, and had killed with his own hand more than 100 officers at one time.

"His method of execution consisted generally of shooting the victim in the stomach and watching him die. Other well authenticated tales of his methods are not fit for publication. During the war ho had been an officer in the imperial army and was of a good family.

"Once on the outskirts of a town I came upon a dead woman. By her side sat her husband, who apparently was shortly to follow her. He held a baby -- their baby--whimpering, naked, starved and cold. He also was crying. And he began to lick his child all over. I feared canabalism, but, no, he was simply trying to keep it warm.

"An hour later there were three dead in a little heap, and I prayed that all who believed in communism as explained by Russia should see such things."