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"You think we would have gotten in anyway?" pursued McCumber.

"I do," said Wilson.

In Wilson’s War Message in 1917, he included an incredible tribute to 

the Communists in Russia who were busily slaughtering the middle class 

in that unfortunate country.

"Assurance has been added to our hope for the future peace of the 

world by the wonderful and 

 

heartening things that have been 

happening in the last few weeks in Russia. Here is a fit partner for a 

League of Honor."71

Wilson’s paean to a bloodthirsty regime which has since murdered 

sixty-six million of its inhabitants in the most barbarous manner exposes 

his true sympathies and his true backers, the bankers who had 

financed the blood purge in Russia. When the Communist Revolution 

seemed in doubt, Wilson sent his personal emissary, Elihu Root, to Russia 

with one hundred million dollars from his Special Emergency War Fund 

to save the toppling Bolshevik regime.

The documentation of Kuhn, Loeb Company’s involvement in the 

establishment of Communism in Russia is much too extensive to be 

quoted here, but we include one brief mention, typical of the literature 

on this subject. In his book, Czarism and the Revolution, Gen. Arsene 

de Goulevitch writes,

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71 Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson, Dodd & Baker, v.5, p. 12-13

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