Monday, May. 11, 1931
Immoral Americans
Clarence Warren, a technical expert loaned by Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. (mill & farm machinery) to the Soviet Government for one year, has just returned to the U. S. with his wife, Mamie Ida, San Francisco clubwoman.
"I am suffering," said Mrs. Warren last week "from 'Russian calet,' a disease brought on by nervous indigestion, and bad food. I shall go to a San Francisco hospital for treatment."
Said Mr. Warren: "Nearly every American woman that goes to Russia with her husband on business and stays any length of time returns to the United States an entirely different woman--and not a happier or better looking one either. They usually take to drink and a large percentage of those who have lived in Russia for more than a year are hopelessly addicted to liquor."
Exclaimed Mrs. Warren: "Wild horses would not have drawn me to Russia if I had known what was waiting us. But I'm not sorry, for I saved my husband's life-- I saw that he got food fit to eat. . . .
"Russia is the most immoral country I ever entered and I have been through most European countries. Even Americans are contaminated.
"They encounter the Russian interpreters who are usually girls, young, pretty, shrewd and without morals. There are Americans in Russia now who are going to find it difficult to get out when their babies are born."
"The Soviet Government," continued Mrs. Warren, amplifying her husband's theme, "doesn't want American women to live in Russia. American women with their demands for better food, better sanitation and more comforts, cause too much trouble and discontent among the people. I didn't have to wait in line at the Soviet stores as the Russians did, but they used to hiss me. I had to have a police escort to get through. Since we left, I've heard they've had to change the rules and make American women stand in line, too, because Russians resented it so."
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