THE HATED WHITE COLLAR
e ' Of all the pictures that have been painted of Russia's present rulers (says the "New York Sun"),.none is so brief, so graphic, so intelligible as this sentence by William T. .hllis, an American who has just returned from the haunts of the Bolsheviks:—"Any man who wears a white collar is at once put on the suspected list and watched." Purpio is the colour of royalty. Fine linen is its diabolical appendage, lfc is assumed that a white collar is fine linen and that the wearer would garb himself in purple if it became him. A white collar signifies wealth, therefore the wearer/ has oppressed the people. To the guil- , lotinel J
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16147, 27 February 1918, Page 5
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