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Show observation of Prussian leaders No other phrase ef the Great War is being watched today with such eonsumlnglntereet aad anxiety as the s'l'tuatlen la'ltuMla. The men at the head of Russian afairs have been ealled traitors,, weaklings, tools of Oerman Influence and , then they, tjis)snn tessaJaatwhkh ther aeessasJ'Msjarleea to protect! What Kew are we ta judge them, et predict f rem1 oierday- te nasi waatTa'etloa taey Vliruket' Thls'U the great pisle'-it prent:.' paV.fe' Vhlch' fVery XmWUan1 inierea'ied In VtibitV ntfTir. eWeJ.'hl.' .ValnV'to solVi.' TnevAuaVHiti ,al aVuchV areas utteraue "eaaaoL help to solve U. But an ilearslgMed. t dltln-terested.' dltln-terested.' sympathetic, a"d vabove all with ,;reii; k'nowtedge: r clear. T &' my.tsVf r .' I. th. ar(.ele,.';Wh.t U a Bolshevik?" iB Hearst's '.Mag-aine '.Mag-aine for Jebruary; that man' la the Charles' dward Russell, member 'of tke special commission sent by the United States to Russia. "To 'the endvot time.". he -writes, "mankind will probably have reason to lament that in the 1917 the American did not understand the Russian and the Russian did not understand the American"; yef'lf it be at all worth while to try to know a people upon, whom the fate of the world probably depends, it Is certainly worth while to try to get his right number." Mr. Russell, frpm JtiS Intimate .knowledge of the Bolshevlkl as they actually exist, ex-ist, disabuses our'mlnds of the idea that they arslmplyspeclmens of the genus yellow dog. He makes us see much that Is heroic and gentle, and Inability to face realities which have bewildered the world. HI masterly analysis reveals the bundle of contradictions con-tradictions which make up the Russian Rus-sian character, and which only the Oermans, among foreign nations, have taken the pains to understand. In other words, hedoes a distinct service to American publicity by giving giv-ing a just appraisal 'to a sltuatloln Which we have .beeajempted tocpn-tent tocpn-tent ourselves' wlth'eaillag eaaos. As a war document, Mr. Russell's ar- 0 tide Is sure to( be given a -detailed account of the attempts made to wreck 'the train of the commission and the manner In which the RsT elan peasants met the danger; he disentangles dis-entangles for us the tangle otthe Russian National Council; and he proves the Interesting fact that Ker-enski Ker-enski was not and never could be dictator to the , Russian peoplej Hearst's .liagaslne is to;be eongrated on securing aa essay ef such Intense Interest and enduring' value. "Probably "Pro-bably we Americans eaa understand tJie Ruaalajs ajasSssF'sasji nsspssteTsasn eaa understaad hHn. and we,ght to do it. f Ha-(eTrerthwhlle man of sjtafisemlaitasleratrsas.;r'"' ',x |