Mr. R. J. Eaton '20, internationally famous as an author and correspondent, will speak in Jordan Hall tomorrow afternoon at 3.30 on Soviet Russia. Mr. Eaton was recently banished from Russia, where he had been imprisoned and sentenced to death as a spy. He had gone to Russia to conduct an investigation for the London Daily Mail, Le Matin and La Nation Belge.
In his talk tomorrow afternoon Mr. Eaton will describe details which were not permitted to appear in news dispatches from Russia. He will also deal with the question of official recognition of Soviet Russia by the United States.
One of the most interesting incidents during his stay in Russia which he will relate will be his appearance before the most dreaded woman in all Russia, called by her followers "Sinova, "the Merciless." As chief of the foreign division of the Cheka, a secret society which has perpetrated many acts of terrorism, she has made her name one of the most feared in Russia.
While in College Mr. Eaton was a member of the a CRIMSON editorial board, and the illustrated board.
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