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 MILITARY MEMBERS OF THE AMERICAN MISSION TO RUSSIA IN THE APARTMENTS 

 OE THE FORMER TSAR ON THE IMPERIAL TRAIN IN WHICH THEY 

 TRAVELED FROM VLADIVOSTOK TO PETROGRAD 



Seated at the left, beside the table on which Emperor Nicholas II signed his abdication 

 of the Russian throne, is Brigadier General (then Colonel) William V. Judson. To his left 

 is Major Stanley Washburn, for three years special correspondent with the Russian armies. 

 The two officers seated on the divan are Major R. Le J. Parker and Major M. C. Kerth, 

 American military observers detailed to Russia. Lieutenant Colonel Bentley Mott is standing 

 and Captain E. Francis Riggs, also a military observer, is seated at the extreme right. Note 

 the numerous handsome furnishings of the car. Among its permanent fixtures are twenty- 

 seven thermometers, sixteen barometers, and eight clocks of elaborate design and beautiful 

 workmanship. 



merit and restore internal conditions to 

 the normal. 



Russia in the past few months can be 

 likened to a crab changing its shell. The 

 crab is a perfectly healthy one, and given 

 the opportunity unmolested it will surely 

 and certainly grow a new and impervious 

 shell. But in the interim the crab is in a 

 delicate position. It is now the task of 

 the army and the men rallying around 

 Kerensky to keep the crab protected until 

 the new shell has grown, when all danger 

 will have passed in Russia. 



Persons returning from Russia express 

 great optimism as to the outcome for a 

 sound and permanent democracy, and 



their judgment is perhaps based on the 

 study of what the Russians have not 

 done in this period of confusion rather 

 than what they have done. 



The situation in Russia since Alarch 

 has been one of the most remarkable in 

 the world's history, and if any one has 

 in the past felt apprehension of the Rus- 

 sian character as a world menace, the 

 lesson of the last few months should for- 

 ever dissipate it. Here we find an im- 

 mense country suddenly told that there 

 is no longer an Emperor, and that they 

 are free. 



Now, freedom and liberty to the Rus- 

 sian peasants are taken literally. To the 



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