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Show UNITED STATES TO AID RUSSIA. Repeatedly has the Standard said that one of the most effective moves to be made by the United States would be to help strengthen tho armed forces of Russia. Today the dispatches inform us the authorities at Washington are bending bend-ing their energies toward assisting the Russian government and Charles R. Crane, a close personal friend of President Wilson, long Interested In developments In Russia, is on his way to that country, to study the situation Our greatest concern should bo to keep Russia in the field. The breaking break-ing down of the resistance of the Slavs would add to the serious part the United States must playhefore the central empires are made to yield. oo |