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Show I NEW RUSSIA I I "NAPOLEON" j r&RnK-, . By Basil M. Manly j WASHINGTON'. June J. That i Alexander Kerensky, Russia's new war minuter, mil! become the Russian Napoleon Na-poleon and lead her disorganized armies to victory under a dictatorship dictator-ship like that which Bonaparte created cre-ated In Krance lit years ago. Is the growing conviction of students of Russian Rus-sian affairs In Washington who are alive to the leMone of history. Conviction that Kerensky will be the Russian Napoleon Is no fanciful surmise, sur-mise, hut the reasoned conclusion of scholars who believe the development of leaders ts shaped by the Inescapable Inescapa-ble current of great events. They see In Russia precisely the conditions that existed In France following fol-lowing the revolution and reasoa its outcome must tie at least similar. In 17 the 1-Yench directory, which occupied a position analagous to the Russian provisional government, had lost ths pnweh which it ones possessed over the French people. France waa surrounded by enemies. The French treasury had run dry. The : army was starving and disorganised. I Like the Russia army. It had thrown off the old discipline and aoldisra were desertlhg bv thousands. 1'eace agitation filled the air. Weary with long struggle and feeling Its Independence In-dependence was safely guarded by the I Rhine and the Alps, the nation longed for peace. The directory knew peace would be suicidal, hut mas powerless to continue aggrewslve warfare until as a last resort re-sort Napoleon was placed In charge of the armies of France just as Kerensky wss last week named U command the armies of Russia. 8o much for similarity of national conditions. Let us look now l tn men. Like Kerensky, Napoleon had been one of the most ardent of revolutionists revolution-ists and strong antltnonarchist. c . A follower of Rousseau, his pro-republican pro-republican essays were written In the same temper and with as great earn estneea as the fiery speeches of Ke-rennky Ke-rennky In the duma. When Napoleon took charge of the armies to save France he had no more Idea of becoming wnperor than Kerensky Keren-sky has. Kerennky's great speech announcing reestahlishment of Iron discipline In the Russian army sounds almost like an echo of Napoleon's speeches to the French armies of 170. Kven In features there 'Is a marked resemhlsnce between the two.. It Is true Kerensky lacks military training, but today victory requires organisation or-ganisation and consolidation of entire nations, not mere groups of soldiers. Thia is a task for a statesman, not for a soldier. It was Lloyd George, not a member of the British tnilltsry staff, who reorganised Great Britain for victory. For this task the training of Kerensky admirably fits him. And above all he has caught the Imagination and captured the confidence confi-dence of the Ruaslgn soldiers and peasants- to the name degree aa the little corporal held the French people and Its army enthralled by hia courage and daring. Out of the Yolcanic upheaval of everv revolution aome leader of overwhelming over-whelming greatneas has appeared. Is It not reasonable to expect that the Russian revolution will run true to form and develop its Nspoieon or Its Cromwell, in the person of some such genius as Kerensky. mho today holds In hia hands the fate of Russia and perhaps the fate of the entire |