RUSSIA.
AN EX-AMBASSADOR'S VIEWS. | WASHINGTON, March 8. j (Received March 12. at. 9.45 a.m.) Mr Prancis, ex-Ambassador to Russia, ' describing to the Propaganda Committee the conditions in Russia, said that it could not be questioned that Lenin was ; a, German agent, but he was concerned more in starting a world revolution than in serving Germany. Kerensky failed to arrest Trotsky and Lenin when the opportunity offered. Lenin was clever and fanatical, and be was ihe brains of the movement. His arrest would very likely j have ended in a counter-revolution.
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Evening Star, Issue 16990, 12 March 1919, Page 6
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