ALEXANDER KERENSKY

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 135, 5 December 1939, Page 10

ALEXANDER KERENSKY

The sudden appearance of Alexander Kerensky in New York to condemn the course taken by the Soviet against Finland might cause surprise to those who have lost trace of the man who once was head of the Russian State. Kerensky is very little in the public eye, and when his marriage in Pennjsylvania to a young lady from Australia was reported a few months ago many American newspapers were unaware that he had been in the United States. Since 1917, when he lost power to the Bolsheviks, Kerensky has been pursuing his political w.ork among his fellow-countrymen, with his headquarters in Paris, where. some White Russians publish a newspaper called "The New Russia." He has refused to recognise the existence of the Soviet Government, or to become a citizen of any other nation, and thus has to travel on a League of Nations passport. He met his bride in Paris and they were married in the United States because Kerensky decided to leave Europe when he saw that war was threatening. He escaped from Russia by way of Murmanskj where a British

— . __, __ fleet furnished him with a small boat and a crew of twelve, with which he sailed to Scapa Flow. He was not surprised by the Russo-German Pact and declared recently that "the present atmosphere of terror in Europe is just what Stalin wants to help him to spread his propaganda of ©lass hatred and revolution. He will-do eyerythinjl he can to keep Europe in a destructive war." Kerensky has been saying thl§ for years, but he only recently learned to say it in English. Consequently th» lecture tour which- he is undertakiri* ion his fourth visit to the United State* j will be wider than that on his first visit twelve, years ago.