Later, in the capacity of Minister of "Justice and Procurator-General, Me. Kerensky, developing his per sonal revolutionary success, went to 'Moscow. 'There he was foted and deluged' with flowers, and there he wave his famous" revolutionary Speeches. He talked in theatres, fllfed with excited crowds, in barracks, even at railway stations. He talked Inexorably, often several times a day. His oratory was of the kind that eauight the imagination of the masses, and they picked on him to be their Mol, Uerejkowsky at that time call-Kerensky the first hero of the Revolution, Others called him the Chief Haranguer.
young Assistant Barrister-at-Law since 1912, Mr. Alexander Kerensky became member of the Leftist Opposition "inthe Russian Parliament (ouma), and busied himself ehiedy with the fate of revolutionaries pur~ aod by or held in exile by the Tsarist Government. His speeches In Parliament were too impassioned for that august body of men, and prior to the Revolution made no prawston on anyone, all the more Singe the flower of Russian oratory was gathered at the Douma. But on the masses Kerensky's speeches had an extraordinary effect; the fire of mis words inflamed crowds already drunks. with revolutionary freedom. Mr, Kerensky held the view that Taisela should see the Great Wai through (0 the end, that she should remain. faithful to' her allies, and that even after the outbreak of revolution law and order should be preserved in the country. But exalt-words, however emotionally de-fivered, could check neither the spreading anarchy nor decay of the Army and Navy. Furthermore, Minister of Justice, Me. Kerensky was blamed for not arresting those leftist extremists who deepened the re~ Volution and called on soldiers stick their bayonets into the earth and leave the front to divide the linet in their villages "he: first Premier of the Provision al Government was Prince Lvov, a very. popular social worker, aristocrat and humanitarianist, who fuse showed himself to be unforgivably mild) and malleable for a government head of those days. After the inner crises of the Prov sional Government, following each other in quick succession, and the reshumle of the Cabinet, Mr- Kerensky was appointed Minister of the 'Army and Navy. He was popular in the First (not yet Bolshevik) Soviet of the Delegates of Workers and Soldiers, and after the Bolshevik attempt at a revolt on July 5, 1917, Mr. Kerensky became Prime' Minister, After Gen. L. G. Kornilov's attempt in August to overthrow the government and form a military dictatorship Mr. Kerensky, remaining Prime Minister, also became the Supreme Commander-in-Chiel. He was now the virtual dictator of Russia, His power, however, came to a rapid end. on October 25, when Lenin staged his revolt in St. Petersburg, and occupied the Winter Palace where the Provisional Government was besieged. 5
Incorreet Facts Mr. Kerensky's father was not a schoolteacher, as was alleged in the newspaper report. He was at. frst Principal of a High School; Lenin did actually study at this school, but could never have been his "star pupil" as he attended the school Before Kerensky's time. Later the elder Kerensky occupied a high position in all the educational institutions of several provinces. Lenin ind Alexander Kerensky didn't ome from the same village. Curiously enough, Lenin (Ulianoft) sprang from the petty nobility. white Kerensky, the son of a functionary, came from bureaucratic circles; and prior to the revolution these gradations had" great' significance in Russia.
Although no one ever doubted Mr. Kerensky's patriotism, and although during his 22 years as an emigres he has been a hard-hitting and -cour~ Ageous critic of the Soviet regime, (it was planned to kidnap him the same way Gen. Kutepov and Gen. Miller were kidnapped in Paris), the wrath of the military has been concentrated on him. They still ean-of forgive the role he played in the mysterious history of the coup dalat of Ge Denikin and other Generals, were arrested by order of Kerensky, although the latter himself sympathised with the formation of military dictatorship he wanted to curb the revolution In order to see the Great War through. Today there fare living in Shanghai a number of faffleers once close to the mystery of Gen. Kornilov, who was later the first to start the White Movement in the South of Russia, Russian Paper's Broadcast Following in the steps of other foreign newspapers here, the "Shang hai Zaria" last week' -commencea news-broadcasts of ils own. The afternoon edition of this newspaper comes out at 3 pim., and the broadcast of 7 pan. thus including all telegrams received in that space of ime. The language employed is, of course, Russian, and the speaker is the well-known feuilletonist Mr. A.
Petrov In addition to telegrams the latest local news are put over the air. The "Slovo" issues evening, bulletins specially for those Rus-slang living north of Soochow Creek.
The return of Russian artistes from summer rarorts continues. Mrs. A. Redlji, the popular Russian blues-Singer, is back in Shanghai; Miss Tatiana Nevskaya, well-known to Light-Opera lovers, "has returned from Tsingtao; Mr. A. N. Vertinsky the well-known choir-leader and authority on Rus-ure music, has lett for San where he has been invited to conduct the choir of one of the Diggest Russian churches in Califor~ nia. A letter has already been received from him, in which he states that he is training the choir and promises the congregation to have treat on Christmas. Mr. VS. Luksha was not very widely-known in Shanghai, but in Harbin he was very. popular and his choir was counted one of the best.
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