What the policy of the Government is with regard to
Russia we do not know, and it would not be frank to suggest that we see clearly what it ought to be, for we have not the necessary information. One thing at all events is plain. The Allied forces in Murmansk and at Archangel, consisting largely of British soldiers and under the supreme command of a British officer, must be rescued. The eagerness with which volunteers have been rushing to the Colours during the last few days to serve in the relief expedition ought to be a lesson to the Government about the true temper of our extraordinary nation. Great Britain is said by loose observers or pessimists to be humming with subversive talk ; we are told that no man cares for anything except what he can get for himself in the way of money and material comfort ; and yet when the cry of distress goes up from the frozen and inhospitable North, men throw off their wry- weariness as though it were a cloak and think of nothing but thr.t their fellow-men should be rescued.
