HARDSHIPS OF THE CULTURED

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160811, 19 November 1920, Page 2

HARDSHIPS OF THE CULTURED

ISOIItED FROM LEARNING,

BRITAIN TO' THE RESCUE.

LONDON, November 6

In the Sunday ‘ Express the effect of Bolshevism on the intellectuals of Russia is described by Mr, H. G., Wells, the well-known author, who recently visited Russia. . Mr Wells explains .'that the mortality among distinguished learned men id 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 1 utile. 1 ‘They could no: more live in the Russia of i 919,” he says, "than in a Kaffir kraal.” This, h© points out, id due not to the -actual restrictions, but to the state of utter ruin—the primary Russian fact ht 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 tnat the British Government has consented to dispatch them thousands of volumes of standard works published hi recent years.