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Show DERLin NEWEST GATEWAY TO RUSSIA Latvia Lose . Pisco aa Chief Entrance Point ; for ' Investigators RIOA. Aug. t (atf A. P.) Latvia haa. ceased to be tha eel gateway to Russia for Inveetlgatore from all over tha world. Berlin la now tha chief diving board for politician educators, concession chasers and relief workers who ara about ta plunge Into red Russia. Many of them ga by airplane. Borne travel from Berlin to Moscow by way of Warsaw,- and othera enter through Finland and Esthonla. But moat of tha foreign visitors emerge from ftuesla through Riga. They are British, American and German, with a sprinkling of Italian, Caochs and Bcandlnavlana. Visitors coming out of Moeeow In breath less haste to tall the world "tha real truth" about Russia ara much aurprlaed frequently to find that, their hurried observations do not attract much attention. Since tha beginning of International relief re-lief work In famine stricken Russia there haa been such a large number num-ber of visitor that It la no novelty for Riga to have scores of passen- gers out or Russia in a smgi aay, and diplomats and ournallsts are well sated with th narratives of enthusiasts who expect th world to be surprised that they were not killed. ' It Is no longer novel to hear that th opra In Moeeow la th most -wonderful In all tha world"; that th soviet government la "mora securely se-curely established than any In Europe"; Eu-rope"; that Moeeow is a safer plac to be than New Tor City." and that "Illiteracy has .been stamped out In the red army. Tha sta t eaten t t hat "pe rfect ly clean sleeping cars ar operated between Moeeow and Petrograd ana between Moeeow and Riga" also has lost Its novelty. - Correspondents who hav been listening for two years to the tale of visitors to Russia, who hav spent a few days In the great Rus-ttan Rus-ttan cities, know exactly what moat of them will say. If they disclosed their sympathy with bolshovlsm before be-fore they entered, they generally come out with words of high praise, i If they were critical before (hey j went In, they ar generally mora critical when they oome out. In other words, th week enders tn Russia generally hav their mind mad up before they go In, and their statements on m edging ar about aa monotonous aa oft re-, re-, pealed phonograph rolls. ' Of course, there ar many visitors vis-itors to Russia who remain there for a considerable tlm and give thought and study to th situation. Thee usually ' hav little to say when they go In and leas when they come out. They generally are net In poltilce; they ara not about to take tha stump on the Russian question, and they ara net rushing Into print with their view on every f phase of th Russian situation. |