RUSSIA'S MISERY.
TRAGEDY OF INTELLECTUALS.
LONDON, Nov. 6. In the Sunday Express the effect of Bolshevism on the intellectuals of Russia is described by Mr. H. G. Wells, the wellknown author, who recently visited Russia. Mr. Wells explains that the mortality among distinguished learned men is terribly high, and that much of it is no doubt due to the general hardships, but in many cases to sheer mortification, their great gifts having become futile. " They could no more live in the Russia of 1919." he says "than in a Kaffir kraal." This, he points out, is due not to the actual restrictions, but to the state of utter —the primary Russian fact at present. One effect of this has been that it has left them isolated from all founts of knowledge. In this connection it is interesting to note that the British Government has consented to despatch them thousands of volumes of standard works published in recent years.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17631, 18 November 1920, Page 7
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