Imagine, if you can, the three million Americans holding the most strategic posts of power and influence in our country being suddenly subjected to a pitiless public inquiry into their past history even unto their great-grandparents, into their political faith, private conduct, and more intimate personal foibles. Imagine this inquiry conducted under conditions which made it the duty of every neighbor and charwoman and office boy to question and accuse these upper three million. Imagine that, and you have some inkling of what took place in Russia.
