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Show RUSSIANS SHOULD BE BETTER KNOWN PAHIS, Jan. 31.(By mail.) Count Nessolrode, ono of the first Russians to respond to tho people's demands' for a! better sharo of the world's goods by distributing among them all of his property 'except what ho required for his own living, says the growing dls- innnn hotwppn tho nrannln r Dimnln and thoso of western Europe Is due to tho neglect by tho French and other leading nations, except Germany, to cultivate relations with the Russian people. He was exiled in 1905 by tho government gov-ernment because of the bad example he set to tho nobility In giving his property over to peasants. Since then he has resided In France and become a naturalized citizen of the republic. A personal friend of Kerensky, Count Nosselrode was a fervent adherent to the revolution and gave to the provisional provi-sional government what aid he could from this end. "The French aro astonished at-tho progress made by German influence In Russia," ho says, "but they forget that tho Germans are Blmply reaping the reward of persistent efforts that date back to a remote period." As an example ex-ample Count Nessolrode polntu to the great number of Russian students fn German universities whore they were aided, encouraged and cultivated In every way. Ho puts the number jusl before the war at 35,000. Count Nessolrode has now been completely ruined by the revolution, the little property ho had retained having been sacked, devastated and appropriated, yet he keeps his faith in a final sane outcome of the revolution revolu-tion and he considers it a great fault for tho nations of the entente to base their attitude toward Russia any other hypothesis. f on |