SOVIET PROPAGANDA IN CANADA
“PECULIARLY AND LURIDLY RED” Ottawa, April 18. A Soviet trade delegation, which recently visited Ottawa to secure Canada’s recognition and develop trade with Russia, has been brought back summarily to do some explaining to the immigration authorities. The delegates brought several huge pack-ing-cases of books for presentation to Canadian libraries. The Customs officials bare discovered that these contain a large proportion of Bolshevik propaganda of a type peculiarly and luridly red. Some of the books attack Christ and the Christian religion ; others openly deride, monarchial and even republican forms of government. and eulogisr Communism. The delegates plead that these were designed for presentation to private libraries only, but the explanation fails to satisfy the officials, especially .in view of coh,tired cartoons and posters contained in the cases. . The delegation has been in touch with a sympathetic element in Winnipeg, where there is a large foreign section, and the authorities hope to nip the whole, plot in the bud.—Sydney “Sun” Cable.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 177, 21 April 1924, Page 6
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