Show Russia's o J W iI Man of the Hour A LEXANDER KERENSKY premier of Rus Russia ia who is regaining r ALEXANDER control of the Slav empire after having been forced to flee Petrograd x y r I I I I I I I f q I r I I l o Wu V f b n r M r a ar sw r 1 r t NEWS OF SLAV DEFECTIONS HELD WORK OF HUN IUN AGENTS By Charles Charlet Edward EdUard Russell Who Spent Three Months With t the he Official Amori American an Commission in Russia HE greatest engine of ot German German German Ger Ger- T THE man strategy In this country country country coun coun- try today is its press agency which continues s to work as us industriously and extensively as when Von Bernstorff was in charge of ot it ft One of th then the great points that Germany is playing for now is to prevent the United States from advancing any more money to Russia This may mean that Russia Russia Russia Rus Rus- sia can bo be detached from the tho thorest rest of ot the allies if It she can bo o convinced that the United States will not help her Therefore German agencies Inthe in inthe inthe the United States and in Petrograd Petrograd Petrograd Petro- Petro grad havo have long been industriously trying to create and p push sh along the belief here that Russia is given over o to anarchy disorder and confusion and is bankrupt They have played this so adroitly adroit adroit- ly that they have o convinced most newspaper editors and millions of newspaper readers that it is tho the fact tact The foundation has been ben so carefully laid that now whenever er anything happens in Russia it is construed and interpreted by our newspapers from Just this point of view I There was a stinging illustration Il illustration of this when the recent statement of Prime Minister 1 Kerensky about Russia Hussla and the war was dis dis- Kerensky said that Russia had morne a very heavy hea heavy burden unaided unaided unaided un un- un- un aided from the tho beginning of ot the war and that she must have help Instantly hundreds of Journals In America leaped to the conclusion conclusion I sion lon that Kerensky y had given notice notice notice no no- tice that Russia was about to quit the fight tight Hero are some of the headlines I saw in American newspapers over the Kerensky statement RUSSIA GIVES UP KERENSKY SAYS RUSSIA WILL FIGHT IGHT NO MORE RUSSIA OUT OF OP THE TIIE WAR WAn RUSSIA SICK OF FIGHTING WILL MAKE A PEACE ALLIES MUST FIGHT WITHOUT WITHOUT WITH WITH- OUT RUSSIA RUSSIA IN COMPLETE COLLAPSE COLLAPSE COL COL- LAPSE KERENSKY SAYS NO O MORE FIGHT FROM 1 RUSSIA Not one of these had the slight slight- Continued on pago page 3 I NEWS OF SLAV Continued from page pago 1 est foundation in fact All Kerensky was doing was to state Russia's need for help He lie never in one syllable intimated that Russia would stop fighting Yet there were the headlines to the contrary You cant can't blame the editors either They have been so fed up with stuff sturt about anarchy and ruin in Russia about chaos and dIsorder disorder disorder der about the terr terrible ble Bolshevik and the tho raving roaring Maxima Maxima- lists neither term terni having the slightest definite meaning to the average American that they are perfectly sure no matter what happens in Russia it must be something bad These things furnish the tho basis on which the pro-Germans pro in congress congress congress con con- gress will work to prevent further further fur fur- further ther advances to Russia They help to keep down the price of ot the ruble They destroy all here in Russia and the tho Russian experiment They go back to Russia and confirm confirm confirm con con- firm the Russian mind in the be belief belief be- be lief adroitly created and fostered by German agents there that the United States is hostile to Russia and nd the new Russian democracy We should have no misunderstanding misunderstanding misunderstanding standing about this matter If Russia Rossla is to fight tight the first requirement Is that the United States shall help her not alone with money and supplies but with sympathy good will and encouragement Instead of ot sympathy we are handing her ber the swift kick In the face race We Ve shouldn't make it impossible for tor Russia to ti fight hl and ancl then roar rear I at her because she he doesn't |