In the weeks following the 1917 Russian Revolution, the US Ambassador in Russia warned his government back in Washington of the Bolsheviks leaders "most of whom are Jews and 90% of whom are returned exiles"
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• Graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 1870
• He was a successful businessman in St. Louis
• Elected the mayor of St. Louis, Missouri in 1885
• Elected Governor of Missouri in 1888
• United States Secretary of the Interior between 1896-1897
• Appointed by President Woodrow Wilson U.S. Ambassador to Russia 1916-1918
In a January 1918 dispatch to
Washington, he warned:
"The Bolshevik leaders here,
most of whom are Jews and 90 percent of
whom are returned exiles, care little
for Russia or any other country but are
internationalists and they are trying to
start a worldwide social revolution."
