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I.
DEFECTS OF THE KERENSKY
GOVERNMENT.

SPECIAL CABLE TO THE DAILY NEWS
(Copyright. 1918. The Chicago Daily News Co.)
Moscow, Russia, April 11.—Three years
ago visionaries in the allied nations
dreamed that Berlin would fall before the
Russian steam roller. To-day the same
visionaries, now pessimists, condemn
Russia as a quitter among the nations,
not seeing in this vast country a future
aid in the world war for democracy. The
majority of newspaper readers in the
allied countries probably suspect or be-
lieve that the Russian soviet government
sold out to Germany and that the soviet
leaders are paid agents of the kaiser.
These are equally fatuous ideas.

False interpretations of facts and ru-
mors that are cabled to the varions
allied countries regarding the revolution
have confused and misled many students
of political movements, whose judgment
of the situation has been accepted as
final. Thus there exists a tendency in
the allied countries to abandon Russia
as a hopeless liabllity, such action being
excused by frequent reiteration of the
theory that the soviet leaders are Ger-
man agents.

In the last six months no definite pol-
icy toward Russia that might have been
adopted by the allies would have changed
Russia from a bad liability to a substan-
tial asset. Now six months of disastrous
revolutionary adventure have put a new
complexion on the situation.

Aroused by German Duplicity.

We in Russia who are actually in con-
tact with the soviet Government discern
the possibility of Russis's again becom-
ing a contributing member of the allies'
coalition. We see the soviet government
a real power with a firm grip on the in-
ternal situation. We see the soviet gov-
ernment furious because of the shameful
peace Germany forced upon it. We see
the soviet's growing resentment against
Germany. We feel the sentiment of the

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