i also found this quote from the anglo-american establishment very interesting. lord esher met lord northcliffe to get his assurances that the propaganda of the times (which northcliffe) owned at the time would not be changed. northcliffe obliged from 1917 until 1919, but then changed his mind. and within three years john jacob astor bought the paper from his estate.  i found another quote from h.g. wells book russia in the shadows about what the times was reporting during this period. i wonder if this is what he was referring to.  now who are these bolsheviki who have taken such an effectual hold upon russia?according to the crazier section of the british press they are the agents of a mysterious racial plot, a secret society, in which jews, jesuits, freemasons, and germans are all jumbled together in the maddest fashion.  russia in the shadows by h.g. wells if, for instance, a day labourer in essex makes a fuss because he finds that the price of his children's boots has risen out of all proportion to the increase in his weekly wages, and declares that he and his fellow workers are being cheated and underpaid, the editors of the times and of the morning post will trace his resentment to the insidious propaganda of some mysterious society at konigsberg or pekin.  russia in the shadows by h.g. wells
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