24 marzo 1917 anni - How Jacob H. Schiff Financed the spread of Revolutionary Propaganda in Russian Czar’s Army. NY TImes March 24, 1917 Pg 1-2

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GEORGE KENNAN RETELLS HISTORY – Relates How Jacob H. Schiff Financed Revolution Propaganda in Czar’s Army.

On the front of the speaker’s stand hung a pair of leg irons, from a Siberian prison. They were unlocked. An Authority on Russian affairs, George Kennan, told of how a movement by the Society of the Friends of Russian Freedom, financed by Jacob H. Schiff, had at the time of the Russo-Japanese war spread amount 50,000 Russian Officers and men in Japanese prison camps the gospel of the Russian revolutionists. “And;” said Mr. Kennan, “we know how the army helped the Duma in the bloodless revolution that made the new Russia last week.”
Mayor Mitchell was introduced..."But I submit we have another reason to be proud. It is now inevitable, so far as human foresight can make a prediction, that the United States is to be projected in the world war and-"...(pg.1)

It was after a review of the struggle of the Russian revolutionists, of whom he has been the leading American writer, that Mr. Kennan told of the work of the Friends of Russian Freedom in the revolution.
During the Japanese-Russian War he (Kennan) was in Tokyo, and that he was permitted to make visits among the 12,000 Russian prisoners in Japanese hands at the end of the first year of the war. He told how they had asked him to give them something to read, and he had conceived the idea of putting revolutionary propaganda in the Russian Army.
The Japanese authorities favored it and gave him permission. Later he said that one day Dr. Nicholas Russell came to him in Tokyo, unannounced, and said that he had been sent to help the work.
"The Movement was financed by a New York banker you all know and love," he said, referring to Mr. Schiff, "and soon we received a ton and a half of Russian revolutionary propaganda. At the end of the war 50,000 Russian officers and men went back to their country ardent revolutionists. The Friends of Russian Freedom had sowed 50,000 seed of liberty in 100 Russian regiments. I do not know how many of those officers and men were in the Petrograd fortress last week, but we do know what part the army took in the revolution." (pg.2)

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