RUSSIA'S MISERY.
TRAGEDY OF INTELLECTUALS. i In the ''Sunday Express," London,the effect of Bolshevism on the intel- 1 f Icctuals of Russia is described by Mr H. G. Wells, the welt-known author. who recently visited Russia, Mr Weils explains that the mortalify among distinguished learned men is terribly high, and that much of it is no doubt due to the general hardships. but in many to sheer mortification, their great gifts having become ''utile. "They could no mGre live in the Russia of 1919." he says, "than in a | Kafilr kraal." This, he points out. i? : not to the actual restrictions, but j to the state of utter ruin—the primary Ku_:::an tact at present. One effect of this been that has left their. isolated from all founts of knowledge. In -.his connection it is interesting to note that the British Government has i consented to despatch them thousands -; oi volumes of standard works pub- j lished in'recent years. i
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Otaki Mail, Volume XXIII, 10 December 1920, Page 4
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