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Memorandum to Colonel House on Intervention in Russia

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My arrest and indictment by the Federal authorities because of a speech opposing Allied intervention in Russia raises a more important question than that of Russian intervention.1 It directly involves the efficient conduct of the war by the Governments of the United States and of the Allies for the democratic aims proclaimed by President Wilson.

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  1. See Walter Lippmann and Charles Merz, ‘A Test of the News’, New Republic, 23 (supplement, 4 August 1920), pp. 1–42, which concentrated upon the New York Times reports between March 1917 and March 1920.

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  2. They occupied Vladivostok on 30 June. For a detailed account of this episode and of the cooperation between the Corps and the Whites, see William Henry Chamberlin, The Russian Revolution, 2 vols (London, 1965), II, ch. xx.

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  3. See John Wheeler-Bennett, Brest-Litovsk: The Forgotten Peace, March 1918 (London, 1966) p. 325.

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Homberger, E., Biggart, J. (1992). Memorandum to Colonel House on Intervention in Russia. In: Homberger, E., Biggart, J. (eds) John Reed and the Russian Revolution. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21836-3_22

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