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GDN_A_P53_16.pdf
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Reference Number:
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GDN/A/P53/16
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Link to Catalogue:
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Series Title:
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Correspondence with M. Philips Price
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Parent Work Title:
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Letter from Alymer Maude to the Editor
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Creator:
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Maude, Aylmer, 1858-1938
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Creator Role:
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Author
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Date Created:
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1919-01-17
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Description:
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Letter from Alymer Maude, relating to a query as to Price's role as a correspondent for the Manchester Guardian, as Price has become editor of a Bolshevist newspaper in Russia, The Call, and has published a propaganda pamphlet entitled The Truth About the Allied Intervention, which states that he is a correspondent for the paper.
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Transcription:
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YMCA Archangel 17.1.19 Dear Sir, I am sending you herewith, in six parts, the story of the North West Russian Expedition. It is the first time it has been told for publication. As indicated in the first article there are other aspects of the matter which I hope to deal with later. Tomorrow I am off for the Railway front, Obozerskie and **Verst 455. I do not know how far you are informed of the present activities of Mr. M. Philips Price, who is said to be acting as editor of “The Call” the English periodical which the Bolsheviks distribute among our troops, & in which they invite them to desert. (Which is obviously treasonable on the part of the English editor). On the title page of a propagandist pamphlet he has got out, printed in Moscow & dated August 1918, he gives his name on the front page as “Correspondent in Russia of the Manchester Guardian”. In it he informs the reader that “the Allies … looked upon the Russian workers & peasants either as objects for economic exploitation or as cannon-fodder to be used by them.” The annoyance one feels at reading such unmitigated lies is somewhat relieved by the humour of his title, which is “The Truth about the Allied Intervention in Russia”. I should be very glad to hear that my articles have reached you. (I had posted 3 before the present 1) & also whether they are the sort of thing you want. Also I should like to know what I am to say when I am asked whether Mr. M.P. Price has still any right to call himself a correspondent of the M.G? You may perhaps have already published some statement about him, but papers are very, very slow in reaching us, & I do not now see the ‘Guardian’ unfortunately. Yours sincerely, Aylmer Maude.
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Language:
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English
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Subject:
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Letters
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Subject:
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Journalists
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Subject:
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Newspapers
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Category of Material:
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Archives
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Sub-Category:
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Letters (correspondence)
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Technique Used:
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Handwriting
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Medium:
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Ink
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Paper
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Time Period Covered:
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20th Century CE
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People Covered:
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Price, M. Philips (Morgan Philips), 1885-1973
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Rights Holder - Image:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Rights holder - Work:
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Copyright restrictions may apply
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