CAN WE TAKE IT?I have just heard a radio announcer say that Dr. Anna Louise Strong has been denied the use of a hall in Bellingham, Washington, because her speech has Communistic teaching in it.
And so it has, for I heard her here in Victoria a few nights ago. But can we dismiss Communism by refusing to listen to it? We know there is such a thing and that it has to be faced. Why do we hide our heads in the sand?
Dr. Strong is one of our own people. A well known, sober-minded, honest woman, and she has something to say to the world to which everyone should give heed. I do not agree with her conclusions but we cannot ignore her premises.
She has lived for fourteen years in Russia and she believes that Russia has made great progress. She thinks their system is better than ours, and she tol
