course, did not take very kindly to it.'"
William Chapin Huntington, who was commercial attache of the United
States Embassy at Petrograd, testified:
"The leaders of the movement, I should say, are about two-thirds Russian Jews * * * The Bolsheviks are internationalists, and they were not interested in the particular national ideals of Russia."
William W. Welch, an employee of the National City Bank, New York, testified:
"In Russia it is well known that three-fourths of the Bolshevik leaders
are Jewish * * * There were some—not many, but there were some—real
Russians; and what I mean by real Russians is Russian-born, and not
Russian Jews."
Roger E. Simmons, Trade Commissioner connected with the United States Department of Commerce, also testified. An important anonymous witness, whom the committee permitted to withhold his name, told the same things.