IN "ROGUES' GALLERY."

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 238, 7 October 1932, Page 12

IN "ROGUES' GALLERY."

BAPTIST LEADER'S PHOTO. SOVIET'S ANTI-GOD MUSEUM. A man whose likeness is to be found in the Russian Soviet's "Rogues' Gallery" is at present visiting Wellington. He is Dr. J. H. Ruslibrooke, general secretary of the Baptist World Alliance. "I tin sorry to say that for the last two or three years I have not been permitted to enter Russia," Dr. Ruslibrooke told the members of the New Zealand Club during an address, at a luncheon given in his honour. "This is because I had seen, and said, and written too much. A friend has told me, however, that recently he visited the Soviet's Anti-God Museum in Moscow, where there is a collection of men objected to by the Soviet. A sort of Rogues' Gallery. "I learn that they have included a portrait of me," said the speaker, after a pause, amid laughter and applause. Dr. Rushbrooke mentioned in the course of his address that lie had visited Russia either six or seven times since the Revolution. He first entered that country to take relief to famine-stricken areas, when the Baptist organisation raised £230,000 in cash and £100,000 in kind "to aid the peoples of Eastern Europe. Of those amounts the whole of the gifts, in kind and half the cash had gone to Russia.