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of the situation. Himself an oppenent of Lenine, he pre-
ferred Lenine to the prospect of the return of a Romanoff.

The fear of a restoration of the Czarism, of the knout,
and of Siberia, is the secret of the Bolshevik strength, in
spite of the fact that they are in a minority, in spite of the
fact that the overwhelming number of pioneers and martyrs of
Russian freedom are against them -- Catherine Breshkovskaia,
Prince Kropotkin, Tchernoff, Gotz, Tseretelli, Tcheidze, Skobeleff,
Plekhanoff, -- all of them Socialists.

Can this fear be lifted from the Russian people? Can
it be borne in upon the Russians that a movement against the Bol-
sheviki is possible without bringing the country into peril of
reaction? Another way of putting this question is to say, Can
we undo the tragic impression created in Russia at the time of
the Korniloff affair last September by the rejoicing of the reac-
tionary part of the British press at the advent of a Russian
Napoleon? Can we wipe out the memory of the unhappy activities
of part of our own press which openly regretted the disappearance
of the Czar because of its unhappy effect on the war fortunes of
the western Allies?

It is respectfully submitted that the attempt might be
worth making; and that it might take the form, above suggested, of
a declaration by this country that it regards as one of its war
and peace aims, the retention by the Russian people of their new-
won liberties. The President, in his address to Congress on Jan-
uary 8, left no doubt of where our sympathies stood in the matter.
But the President's pledge of sympathy for, and confidence in, the

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