how many of these have been imprisoned or interned, for what periods and for what offences, and how many British have been executed ; together with a statement showing how many have died of disease, the nature of the disease, and the age of the deceased person.
There is nothing like facts to blow away the fairy tales of fiction mongers. No one with any knowledge of facts will deny that many British subjects endured untold hardship and suffering ; some of it partially due to the treatment they received at the hands of the Soviet Government or its agents. No one will deny that some British people have been interned and imprisoned without trial and for offences which, to say the least, were charged against them only on suspicion. But when all this is admitted, the bare fact remains that the bulk of British residents were free to live where they pleased ; could obtain employment and earn their livings on the same terms as Russians that at least sixty of the British soldiers were never treated as prisoners, but were allowed complete freedom of movement ; that even those who were imprisoned or interned were allowed to receive parcels of food from the outside ; and at holiday times, such as Christmas, were allowed to amuse themselves by means of concerts.
I met the first British prisoner I saw in Russia on the streets of Moscow. When I
