Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-01-11 | Page 2 | Protest Against Recognition of the Bolsheviki

PROTEST AGAINST RECOGNITION OF THE BOLSHEVIKI ' LONDON, Jan. 10. Henry M. Hynd-man, Hynd-man, leader of the British Socialists, and Dr. William Gavronskj, who was special commissioner of the Kerensky government to Great Britain, today sent a cablegram to President Wilson protesting against what they termed the president's identification of the Bolsheviki with the democracy of Russia. Rus-sia. The cablegram said Jtfr. Wilson was strengthening the hands of autocratic auto-cratic despotism and supporting lawless law-less rule which is destroying the foundations foun-dations of Russian freedom and Russian Rus-sian power of resistance to the German enemy. ' ' M." Gavronsky issued the following statement at the Russian embassy: The allies made a big blunder in relation to revolutionary Russia. They did not define their War aims clearly during the time of M. Kerensky Ke-rensky 's government and thus they placed a powerful weapon in the hands of the Bolsheviki in their tight aeainstthe allies as well a8 the Kerensky government, which always al-ways supported the war policy of. the allies. We're it not for this blunder we would not be witnessing witness-ing the unfortunate speetacle of Russia being drawn into an abyss bv Bolshevik rule, and an alleged representation of Russia carrying on peace negotiations. Another blunder must be prevented . at all costs. The allies ought to base their policy in Russia on their friends, not on their enemies, the Bolsheviki. i