PARADING BEFORE THE WINTER PALACE IN PETROGRAD 



In striking contrast to the terrible bloodshed which marked the overthrow of autocratic 

 monarchy in France a century and a quarter ago, the Russian revolution was accomplished 

 with astonishing orderliness. There was no looting whatsoever. All the priceless art treas- 

 ures of the deposed Tsar's palaces in Petrograd and at Tsarskoe Selo remain intact. 



mean the freedom of the individual to 

 abandon work and do nothing. 



Perhaps it is too soon to say that the 

 crisis has passed in Russia ; but it does 

 seem as though the fallacies of the Ger- 

 man propaganda were being recognized 

 and its strength being diminished. That 

 we will have more crises in Russia is be- 

 yond doubt ; but we in America must 

 view them without panic or undue pes- 

 simism, trusting in the character of our 

 allies as shown in the past, helping them 

 morally and materially where we can, 

 and sympathizing with them in this their 

 first great trial at democracy. 



The retirements of the Russian army 

 need alarm us only to the degree in which 

 such movements threaten to end the war. 

 In France or in Flanders the loss of ter- 

 rain threatens the issue, but in Russia the 

 only vital objective of the enemy is the 

 Russian army itself. The loss of food- 

 producing territory in Galicia and Po- 

 dolia is, of course, regrettable ; but as 



long as the army- keeps getting away we 

 need not be too fearful as to the issue. 

 It must always be remembered that the 

 greatest help Russia can give us is by 

 fighting at the same time that we are 

 fighting, and, broadly viewed, it is of 

 relatively small moment whether she is 

 fighting in Poland or whether she is 

 standing on a line in front of Kiev, Mos- 

 cow, and Petrograd. 



THE PATHETIC PLIGHT OP ROUMANIA 



The winter in Russia promises to pre- 

 sent many hardships, and we must, with 

 evenly poised minds, watch with solici- 

 tude and concern, helping where we may 

 her struggles during the next six months, 

 bearing in mind always that with an 

 army of 3,000,000 enemies in the heart 

 of her great country next spring, she 

 may help us end the war next year ; but 

 with Russia at peace at least two years 

 must elapse before a supremacy in the 



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