FOREWORD. 



In face of everything that is happening to-day, and may 

 happen to-morrow in connection with Russia, and on 

 account of the immense value of that country to Prussia, 

 if we leave it entirely in her hands to " play with " and to 

 mould to her liking and requirements, I was in hopes 

 that this Foreword might have been written by Sir George 

 Buchanan, G.C.B., our Ambassador at Petrograd until 

 the time that the Bolsheviki made life in that city 

 unbearable. 



The need of a complete and well-deserved rest rendered 

 this impossible, for when I approached Sir George 

 Buchanan on the matter, he wrote that "Your letter has 

 been forwarded to me here, where I have been sent for 

 a few weeks' complete rest. Anything that you can do 

 to bring home to the public and to business men generally 

 the necessity of holding out a helping hand to Russia so 

 as to save her from German economic domination in the 

 future will have my fullest sympathy. Russia has still 

 a great future before her and we cannot afford to stand 

 !' V* >^ •■ ^ aside and , leave Germany a free hand to undertake the 

 work of reconstruction. We must not disinterest our- 

 selves in Russia with her vast future potentialities." 



As with Russia so it has been and so it will be with 

 India, Latin America, and Africa. A people that cannot 

 free themselves are not worthy to be free, and if we wish 

 to be free of Germany's domination in times of peace as 

 well as in times of war, we must not allow that country to 

 dominate these markets again as she did before the War. 

 The best governments and the wisest men the world ever 



