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 with almost excessive impetuosity of attack. This high-pitched impulsiveness of Russian national life is fraught with danger, because the higher the nervous tension and uplift, the greater may be the reaction afterwards. The Russian Revolution and the Russian Revolutionary army need all the sympathy and the active co-operation of the Allied democracies. The nervous tension of Russian national life should be cured.

The reason for this nervous overstrain is that the Russian Revolution feels isolated, and that the prospect looks dark. Imagine the position of the Russian democracy. The indefinite prolongation of the war means a vista of internal collapse and catastrophe. Yet hope of a speedy ending of the war diminishes every day.

The Russian democracy is extending its hands with passionate yearning to its Allies' democracies. But its outstretched hands remain hanging in the air. Democratic Russia calls upon the Western democracies: "Try to understand the tragic position of Revolutionary Russia. Try to