Maxim Gorky's Appeal to the American People
This is Maxim Gorky's appeal to the American people for aid to Russia. It was reprinted in the New York Times on July 23, 1921.
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OCR Page 1 of 3MAXIM GORKY'S APPEAL TO THI AMERICAN PEOPLE.
Reprinted from the New York Times
23 July 1921.
"Moscow, July 13.
*To All Honést People:
The com-growing steppes are smitten by crop failure, caused
by the drought. The calamity threatens starvation to millions of
Russian People. Think of the Russian people's exhaustion by the war
and revolution, which considerably reduced its resistance to disease
and its physical enjurance. Gloomy days have come for the country of
Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Meneleyev, Pavlov, Mussergsky, Clinka and other
world-prized men, and I venture to trust that the cultured Buropean and
American people, understanding the tragedy of the Russian people, will
inmediately succor with bread and medicines.
"If humanitarian ideas and feelings - faith in whose social im-
port was so shaken by the damnable war and its victors* unmercifulness
towards the vanquished - if faith in the creative force of these ideas
and feelings, I gay, must and can be restored, Russia's misfortune of-
fers humanitarians a splendid opportunity to demonstrate the vitality
of umanitarianism. I think particularly warm sympathy in succoring
the Rugsian people must be shown by those who, during the ignominious
war so passionately preached fratricidal hatred, thereby w ithering the
educational efficacy of ideas evolved by mankind in the most arduous
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