Albert Adelson letters : San Francisco, Calif., to Senator McCumber and President Wilson : TL, 1918, Oct. 5 and 1919, Sep. 14.

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Albert Adelson letters : San Francisco, Calif., to Senator McCumber and President Wilson : TL, 1918, Oct. 5 and 1919, Sep. 14.

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Adelson writes to President W. Wilson on Oct. 5, 1918 to offer his services as mediator in the controversy between the United States and Russia. As qualifications he states that he was Russian-born and his lineage comes from the most active set against Czardom from the 1880s, as well has being one of the founders of the Russian Republic and author of their constitution. He believes that pure reason transmitted through a friend can bring them to their senses in this transition from "brutal absolutism to fanatical communism." Letter of Sep. 14, 1919 to Senator P.J. McCumber of N. Dakota addresses McCumber's comments on the League of Nations document, and offers strong criticism of the document and accompanying literature on Adelson's proposed "back to the land movement," apparently suppored by congressmen Julius Kahn and N. Garner, as well as Hiram Johnson.

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