IN ROGUES’ GALLERY

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3850, 5 October 1932, Page 7

IN ROGUES’ GALLERY

EMINENT BAPTIST'S LIKENESS BARRED BY THE SOVIET ff*ei i’ress Aihonatiou). Wellington, Oct. 4. A man whose likeness 15 to be ! found in the Russian Soviet's I Rogues’ Gallery i s at present visiting- Wellington. He is Dr. J. H. Rushbrooke, gcnercl secretary of the Baptist World Alliance, j “I am sorry to say that for the last two or three years I have not been permitted to enter Russia,” Dr. Rushbrooke to!d the members of the New Zealand Club during an address at a luncheon given in his honour yesterday. “This is,because 1 had seen, and said, and written too much. A friend has told me, however, that recently he visited the Soviet antiGod Museum in Moscow, where j there is a collection of portraits of men objected to by the Soviet. A sort of Rogues' Gallery. (Laughter). “I learn that they hav e included a portrait of me,” said the speaker, after a pause and renewed laughter and applause.” j Dr. Rushbrooke mentioned in the • course of his address that he 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 Babtist organisation raised .£250,000 in cash and £IOO,OOO in kind to aid the peoples of Eastern Europe. Of those amounts the w hole of tbo gifts in kind and half of the cash hud gone to Russia