There are two sons, one of whom is at Cambridge. The other has had an_ adventurous career. A youth of 24 years, he met Guards and then in 1920 he ought during the war in the
went out to the borderland of Russia, Turkey and Armenia. In his own words:
"Tt was in-September of 1920 that I went to Armenia, at the request of the President of the Republic, as an instructor to the Army during the Turkish-Armenian war. We were beaten by the Turks in November, and next month the Bolsheviks swept down and took the country by force. One of their first acts was to throw me into gaol, together with nian Social-Revolutionaries and Socialists of the Second International. In this as in many other acts, they showed themselves completely regardless of the welfare of Socialists and lovers of liberty.
"At that time I was a witness of one of the vilest acts committed by the Bolsheviks; before my eyes they executed seventy-five Armenian Socialists. I was let out on parole about January 16, after six weeks in prison, and I spent my time going about seeing how Bolshevism worked. _Scourged and bleeding though she was, Armenia managed to effect a counter-revolution in February. For some time the Bolsheviks were kept at bay, but at length, in April, the Armenians were back into Persia.
"In March I left for Turkey, armed with a passport given by the Kemalist Consul for safe-conduct across Turkey. I know now that it was only a trap for me. In the horrors of that march across the Caucasus perhaps the worst were that Iwas snow-blind and frost-bitten. I was accompanied by an adjutant, a fine Germany. At Alexandropol I fellow, who is now starving in
was arrested by the Turks, and sent to prison at Kors for a month. Then I was moved! to another prison, where I was shut up with chains on my feet and starve ing for five more weary months. I used to crawl about on my hands and knees looking for crumbs and other scraps of food. During that time the. Bolshevi asked for me to be handed back to them for execution, but the Turks were not quite as unprincipled as that. But _in prison with me were two Communists who were executed outside my window. At last an exchange was fixed up, and after a weary walk from Erzerum to Trebizond I made my way back to England."
Young Mr. Baldwin adds that the British Labour Party have broken his heart becauses, what-err their protestations, they really do too much to help the Third (Communist) International of
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