IN “ROGUES’ GALLERY”

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11760, 6 October 1932, Page 2

IN “ROGUES’ GALLERY”

IMMINENT BAPTIST’S LIKENESS. BARRED BA THE SOVIET. A mail whose likeness is to he found in the Russian Soviet’s 'lLjyues’ Gallery’’ is at present voting Wellington. He is Dr. J. H. Rushhrooke,. general secretary of the Baptist World Alliance. V ‘l am sorry to say that lor the last two or three years i have nof been permitted to enter. Russia," Dr. Rushbrooke 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 ia a collection of portraits of men objected to by the Soviet. A sort of Rogues’ Gallery. (Laughter.) “I learn that they have included a portrait of me,” said the speaker, after a pause and amid renewed laughter and applause. Dr. ltushbrooke mentioned in the course of his address (hat. lie hudvisited Russia either six or seven times since the Revolution. He hrst entered that country to-'take relief to- famine-stricken areas, when the Baptist. organisation raised £250-000 in cash and £IOO,OOO in kind to aid the peoples of' Eastern Europe. Of those amounts/the. whole of the gilts in: kind and half of the cash had gone't o Russia.