nly the most eminent commissaries of the people
and a few other Soviet stars of the first magnitude are domiciled
there in the grandiose palaces that once housed the most famous
figures of Muscovite history.

"Protected behind numerous barriers of bayonets and machine guns,
the Bolshevik chieftains have made this barbarically gorgeous
nesting place of Oriental autocracy the throbbing nerve centre of
world revolution.... And from its frowning gates they sally forth
in their high power limousines on affairs of state even as the
Czars in their day went forth to superintend the administration of
their colossal heritage.

"Bolshevism's upper ten are in the Kremlin. The lesser lights of
the Bolshevik aristocracy must content themselves with quarters in
the 'Soviet houses,' which were the city's leading hotels, and are
now nationalized habitations reserved for prominent Soviet
officials. These buildings, like the Kremlin, are better heated and
generally cared for than most other domiciles and the food served
in them is slightly more abundant. Sentries guard the doors to
prevent unauthorized visitors from gaining admission....

"The fact that some individuals ride to the opera in limousines
while the rest walk is necessarily productive of class division.
Already there is a slang term for the former--the proletarian
bourgeoisie, they are called."

The observant reader will also have gathered from the extract just given
that, fourthly, the "ruling class" of Communist Russia is much more
distrustful of the "common people" than any class in the United States,
Great Britain or France would think of being. Thus the lords and
lordlings of the "proletarian dictatorship" barricade themselves in
"citadels," behind "barriers of bayonets and machine guns," while
"sentries guard the doors" to keep out "visitors." What would we poor
"bourgeois" Americans think if our wealthier inhabitants and public
officials kept "common citizens" out of range by such a display of
infantry and artillery?

Fifthly, despite all the gush about a "workingmen's" republic in Russia,
that country is now absolutely helpless under the yoke of the most
absolute autocracy the world has seen in a long while. As to this we
quote Lincoln Eyre's cable, dated February 25, 1920, and published in
the "New York World" of February 27, 1920. Eyre says:

"Len