The political situation in Russia is still obscure. But it
looks as if Germany had decided to desert the Bolsheviks, whose armies and supply organizations owe such efficiency as they possess to German officers. Tho formation of a West Russian Government, made in Berlin, and the renewed activity of the Russian army on the Esthonian border—an army which appears to be largely German—point to a desire to profit by the Bolshevik reverses. If the Russian patriots, despairing of Allied help, had to employ German troops to recover Petrograd, it is obvious that German influence in Russia would be greatly strengthened. The Ukraine's declaration of war against General Denikin, who had just freed the Ukraine from Bolshevik misrule, looks very much like a German intrigue, for the dominant faction in the Ukraine is hand in glove with the Germans. The Allies cannot afford to neglect these manoeuvres. They must hold Germany to her undertaking, in the Peace Treaty, to leave Russia severely alone.
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