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maintenance of peace they had sacrificed many of Russia's 

 most vital interests. Whatever sympathy might be felt for 

 Bolshevist ideas, the methods by which they had tried to 

 obtain them had been attended with such disastrous con- 

 sequences to the whole country that they were not likely 

 to commend themselves to British democracy. Instead 

 of a democratic peace based on the principle of self- 

 determination, Russia would appear to be on the point 

 of accepting a peace determined by German Imperialism. 

 She was rent by civil war, in which class was fighting 

 against class, and, like a house divided against itself, she 

 could not stand against the onslaught of the invader. 

 What an object lesson to other countries and to us at 

 home on the need of presenting a united front to the 

 enemy ! 



" Russia, however, was not dead. It was for us, who 

 had known and believed in her under happier conditions, 

 to consider what we could do to promote her recovery. 

 She could not herself hope to take up the work of 

 reconstruction in hand without assistance. If the Allies 

 left Russia severely alone, Germany would not be slow to 

 exploit her for her own ends. There was little we could 

 do at the present moment, but we must prepare before- 

 hand to act when the right moment comes. . . . The 

 moral oxygen necessary to restore Russia was education, 

 and the more familiar we could make the masses of the 

 Russian people with British culture, the more we could 

 do to help them to organize a system of technical educa- 

 tion, the more would British ideas and British influence 

 permeate the country."^ 



In face of the above. Tropical Life was right when, just 

 ten days before Sir George Buchanan delivered his 

 speech, it published the following words at the beginning 

 of p. 29 of the February issue : " The Stock Exchange 

 and everyone else are watching the triumphs (?) of the 

 disorganized masses in Russia now that it iias had the 



' It was to carry out such a scheme that caused us to start Twentieth 

 Century Kitsda in 1915, in the midst of the strenuous work of finishing 

 off and publishing " The Rubber Industry of the Amazon." We felt, 

 however, that there was no time like the present, and althougli we knew 

 we had set forth on an arduous journey, we felt that the reward was 

 worth striving for even in those days. Now, three years later, the very 

 fact that the journey has become thrice as difficult has enhanced our 

 desire to achieve success fourfold. Those who do not know Twentietit 

 Century Russia should write for a specimen copy (enclosing if possible 

 two penny stamps, but in any case write), and if we have one to spare it 

 will be forwarded with pleasure. — H. II. S. 



