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she is now doing from a military standpoint, if Germany 

 owned Russia three 'times over, she could whistle 

 for the supplies that the Slav peasantry will need and 

 never he ahle to secure, for Germany cannot supply them 

 alone. America, as Count Ilya Tolstoy truly claims, is the 

 only country in which agriculture faces the approximate 

 conditions tl)at exist in Russia, a country in which agricul- 

 ture is conducted, not in terms of square acres, but on the 

 basis of square miles. America, owing to her machine- 

 making genius has been able to develop her immense 

 agricultural resources on a gigantic scale and, for this 

 reason, it is from her that Russia must learn and to which 

 she will look for machinery, to America and her Allies 

 and not to Germany. 



As Mr. Zinovy Preev, Editor of Twentieth Century Russia, 

 points out in the first portion of his book on " The Russian 

 Revolution and Who's Who in Russia," it would indeed be 

 " difficult to exaggerate the significance of thepart that the 

 moderate element has played, and will again play for the 

 good of Russia and the world generally in connection with 

 the Russian Revolution — so deep is its meaning, so full is 

 its promise, so rich are its possibilities, not only for Russia 

 itself but for the world at large. On the other hand, the 

 vistas opened by the Revolution are so vast and flooded 

 with such dazzling sunshine that one might be carried 

 away on the wings of imagination to the most distant 

 regions of political and social speculation." At the time 

 there was no doubt that the intervention of the Revolution 

 saved Russia from an ignoble peace with Germany and 

 prevented the whole Allied cause from being wrecked as a 

 result of Russia's falling out of the struggle, whether 

 wilfully or under the weight of a crushing defeat. Since 

 this is so, Russia deserved her letter of congratulation 

 from the ex- President of the United States, the latest of 

 her Allies, and Colonel Roosevelt also deserves a word 

 of praise (or the tone and wording that he chose for con- 

 veying his message. Meanwhile let us remember that 

 those in Russia best able to realize the value of this letter 

 and the need of following the advice given, are still looking 

 to the Allies for help. 



This, I am not ashamed to own on this last day of 

 March, is still my view also of Russia and her future. 

 Russia which, months ago, would have entered Berlin in 

 triumph, side by side with her Allies if her aristocracy had 

 not been so permeated with traitors, with pro-Germans 

 and actual Germans. These men and women were around 



