The important statement by President Wilson last week that he
meant to stand by Russia has made the prOblem how to help Russia very real. Both the Bolsheviks and the Cadets have ap- pealed in different forms for help from the Allies. Every political party in Russia now recognizes that the Brest-Litovsk Treaty is nothing but an instrument of German brutality and acquisition. The Bolsheviks in appealing for help have proposed the condition that all the Soviets throughout Russia should be recognized by the Allies. This is on the face of it a tall order, as from the point of view of all democratic people Bolshevism is the negation of demo- cratic government. There is no pretence on the, part of M. Lenin and M. Trotsky that they wish the will of the people to prevail. What they say is that the proletariat must rule, and must crush both capitalism and the bourgeoisie. They are opposed to the existence of everybody who does not agree with them.
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