144 APPENDIX 



RUSSIA AFTER THE WAR 



(From John Foster Fraser's Russia of To-Day I 



quote the following.) 



A belief prevails that with the close of the war, 

 Russia will have a rebirth. She will cast off her 

 sluggishness. She will bestir herself in the science of 

 industry and commerce, and not rely so much for her 

 necessaries upon the foreigner. The war has taught 

 Russia that there is danger in being a commercial 

 colony of Germany, and the temper of the people 

 is "Never again!' 1 . . . 



Enormous advance has been made within recent 

 years to ameliorate the condition of the small land- 

 holder, more proportionate advance than in any other 

 land, though the great improvement is not recognized 

 by outsiders. Frankly no government has done 

 so much in recent times to give the peasantry ac- 

 cess to the land. The Duma, though without much 

 power in itself, has enormous power in the ventilation 

 of grievances, and here again public opinion shows 

 itself. In London there is a Russia Society, the chief 

 function of which is to provide enlightenment to Eng- 

 lish people of things as they actually are in Russia, and 

 to Scotch popular errors. In Moscow there is an 

 English Society, and its aim is to boom English institu- 

 tions; so there are not a few men in Russia who believe 

 that under the guise of international friendship its 

 real aim is political propaganda. 



Anyway, I am right in saying there is a general 



