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wheat, and the other cereals that hitherto we have 

 imported from Germany and Austria, also with flax, 

 linseed, hides, timber, hemp, tallow, lumber, wood-pulp 

 and the host of other agricultural products which we must 

 always import as we have neither the time nor the land 

 space to produce all we recjuire. 



It is far easier to realize in one's mind than to estimate 

 on paper what this increased trade, coupled with cheaper 

 food, will mean to everyone, but especially to the middle 

 and lower middle classes of the United Kingdom. May 

 we very soon be in a position to secure these blessings. 

 The review Tivcntieth Century Russia hopes to take an active 

 share in helping us to attain them by promoting an inti- 

 mate acquaintance between the Russian and Anglo-Saxon 

 peoples ; by persuading each to take such an interest in 

 the other that an interchange of visits will take place, and 

 by building such a foundation of mutual appreciation and 

 confidence between the countries that the populaces of 

 London, Liverpool and Manchester, &c., will want to 

 know Petrograd, Moscow, Warsaw, and Odessa as well 

 as they now know Paris, Havre, New York, Boston, 

 Chicago and San Francisco. 



Personally, I heartily agree with the housewife who told 

 her newly-married neighbour that the surest way to keep 

 a husband happy and good-tempered was " to fill him with 

 good food and assist him to line his pockets with good 

 money, well earned " ! Sound advice, plainly spoken, and 

 advice which we may with advantage follow with regard 

 to Russia, for, in helping her to grow rich and contented, 

 we shall, at the same time, help France, Belgium and 

 Serbia, and secure peace, prosperity and happiness not 

 only for our Allies and Europe, but for the whole world. 



In a more recent number of this same magazine, viz., 

 its issue for July, 1917, pointing out the interest that 

 Ex-President Roosevelt had shown in the recently demo- 

 cratized Russia, I included his letter to Count Ilya 

 Tolstoy, in which Colonel Roosevelt congratulated Russia 

 on the change in her Government. 



This I obtained because in 19 15, when I had reason to- 

 communicate with Colonel Roosevelt regarding a book I 

 was then writing on Brazil,' and the good-natured answer 



1 "The Rubber Indiis'ry of the Amazon," to which, as explained in the 

 introduction, I invited Lord Hryce as representing the English view and 

 Colonel Roosevelt as writing for the United States, to contribute a Fore- 

 word to the book on the modern interpretation of the Monroe Uoctiine. 



