Senator King whether Lenin and Trotzky and those who are in control of the Bolshevik government were there as the result of a general election, testified:23
Mr. Francis. “No, no. They are there as usurpers.”
Senator King. “By force and terror?”
Mr. Francis. “I do not think they represent more than ten per cent of the Russians.”
Senator Overman. “Of the whole 180,000,000?”
Mr. Francis. “Of the whole 180,000,000.”
Mr. Roger E. Simmons also describes the Bolshevik government as it existed when he left Russia in November, 1918, as follows:
“The Soviet government, composed solely of Bolsheviks, of a portion only of the ‘manual proletariat’ is a government in name only. Rightly stated, it is a well-organized institution functioning to further the social revolution, the overthrow of all recognized standards of morality and civilization.”24
That gradual despotism shown by the testimony of these witnesses to exist in 1918 has tended