In Russia the sky seems to be clearing. The All-Russia
Congress of Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates, now in session, is a more truly representative assembly than the improvised Petrograd Council which has hitherto controlled the Government. It has asserted its authority so far as to cause the Anarchists under Lenin to abandon a projected rising. Further, it has definitely rejected " every policy tending in fact to the conclusion of a separate peace or to its prelude, a separate armistice." So long as Russia steers clear of anarchy on the one side and a delusive peace with German despotism on the other, there is no reason to despair of her future. M. Vandervelde, after spending six weeks in Russia, declares that the Provisional Government is gaining strength and, en the authority of General Brussiloff, that the Army is in full convalescence.
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