10 AUGUST 1918, Page 2

- This decision of President Wilson to intervene in Russia

is a cause of sore perplexity to those British newspapers which have continually raisrepresensed the nature of his idealism. They have assumed, absolutely without warrant, that President Wllsw. Is prepared to establish a League of Nations as an alternative to victory. They have also assumed that he could not possibly sanction intervention in Russia. It is not to be wondered at that they display bewilderment when they discover that their assump- tions about the United States and Russia were entirely false. The truth, we imagine, is that President Wilson understands perfectly well that intervention offers easy openings for hostile or insineere criticism. The Germans will say that Russia is being "invaded."