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Red turns to Pink, and the role of Russian women in World War IEntry/Object ID
2013.13.1.145Description
Clippings and memorabilia from World War I scrapbook compiled by Dr. Naaman H. Keyser, page 142.
A single newspaper from an undated and unidentified newspaper is glued to page 142. An incomplete headline [part missing] announces "... 'Red has Gone from Bolshevism." The story following gives the details: "'Bolshevism in Russia is no longer red. It is a pale pink. The United States today should put aside preconceived prejudices and make an open minded study of Russian aims. Russia does not want red Bolshevism. She does want America's friendship.' Back from a sixteen-months' sojourn in Vladivostok, Siberia, with the American Expeditionary Force, Captain L. Cody Marh, 216 E. Meade st., Chestnut Hill, defended the present activity of Russia as 'a ight to preserve herself.' ...Russian women and American men 'are temoperamentally mated,' the Captain said. The feminine qualities of Russian girls made such a direct appeal to doughboys in the American replacement division that 500 of them brought back Russian brides. Two hundred Russian girls returned to their husbands' American homes on the transport Madawaska under the chaperonage of the captain.'" A caption associated with a series of photographs of Russian women: "These young women were among a group who arrived recently in this country on the transport Madawaska under the chaperonage of Captain L. Cody Marsh, 216 E. Meade st. Chestnut Hill. Captain Marsh, who spent sixteen months in Vladivostok with the A. E. F. is warm in his praise of Russian girls and says they and American men are temperamentally mated."
Pages are 7.5 x 10".Photograph Details
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