PREFACE
Like everyone else these days who goes to Russia, I am writing a book. I have no apology to offer for inflicting yet one more story about “ Bolshevism ” on a long-suffering public. I am sure that, with the exchange of prisoners, and the return to England of hundreds of men and women lately detained in Russia, my book will not be the last.
A word of explanation is due as to how I came to get into Russia, at a time when Labour leaders and others were refused permission or passports to enter that forbidden country. The facts are quite simple. Last January, peace was about to be made between Esthonia and the Russian Soviet Republic. The “ Daily Herald ” numbers amongst its friends members of all the delegations in London representing the border States of Russia. We had specially championed the cause of Esthonia in the pages of the weekly “ Herald.” I thought it would be a good
