Abstract

The Week

Public interest in the progress of events in the Soviet Union has been overtopped, for the moment at least, by the American protest against the outrages and massacres which are taking place on an increasing scale in that distracted country. U.S. President Thomas Woodrow Wilson is not inclined to be hysterical, nor has he shown a disposition to act hastily upon mere rumor or general allegation. And while detailed statistics have not been made public, the American note would not have asserted that "thousands of persons have been shot without even a form of trial," that "every night scores of Russian citizens are recklessly put to death" and that "irresponsible bands are venting their brutal passions in the daily massacres of untold innocents," unless the proofs of the terrible indictment were overwhelming.