Seldom does Mr. Walter Duranty, able Moscow correspondent of the New York Times, indulge himself in any but the most decorous nouns and adjectives. Last week a suppressed flair for a style more incarnadine and virile apparently overcame him. He filed a long despatch, which ran in part as follows:
"Under the iron rule of the proletarian dictatorship freedom still exists in Russia. Right here in Moscow, despite Red guards and secret police, freedom runs rampant, wild as wolves and as savageĀa freedom anarchisticĀfree to rob, free to fight, free to kill, free (as...
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