The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-11-10
WHAT THE UNITED STATES MUST DO

HE CRISIS in Russia does not alter the
- States begun. The must be decided
though Russia will not fight and Italy is crippled
What must the United States pursue in Russian
That depends what happening there depends upon
the actual feeling and purposes of the Russian people,
II the government radicals actually imposed
the Russian people, clique in Perogad ought
not TO be very difficult for the other Allies by giving udcous
aid to the Kerensky party to establish firm in
Russia, under military dictatorship. 81.
Whatcan be done depends the temper of the Russian
people few weeks back Nicholas Lenine fugitive
price upon his head Today he is premier of the
ysonal government supported apparently by the military
power within striking distance Of Petrograd.
he support of the Russian people? This inquiry
be at this distance obscured the
from Russia is, by fasehood and error
srayes along the road The first act of the
revolution establish informal parliament which
tbs Council Of Workmens and Soldiers dele
Almost the first act Of this council declare
peace without indenites without forcbe seizures of ter
Lvof government which first followed the revolution
attempted arrangement for carrying the The
eminent compelled by the Council to resend its note
The Kerensky attempted to make the Russian
armies fight and was unable attempted
revolution which would have been followed by
effort to continue the effectively The Kornoff rebellion
collapsed pitiaby.
Kerensky under suspicion of having intrigued with
K0rnloff and now is deposed.
substantial act Of the government aside from
The steps necessary establish is its deeara
on that will be sought beginning with an armistice
Tor three months.
view Of this evidence is difficult not to SUPPOSE that
e Russian people determined upon peace Otherwise it
would be impossible for the Russian radicals to take the
Epyernment with trfling display of force ls
The policy must have penetrated deeply both
When the soldiers of nation will not support their
In time Of war; that is bound to fall
There two roads by which Russia be brought into
useful association with the Allies The conservative and pro-
elements Russia may obtain enough active military
power control the situation This at the moment
likely The conquest Of Russia by soldiers Of the Allies is also
impossible would Immediately the military
of Russia allies of the Germans
the Germans stimulated by their recent may
decline the peace which Lenne and his followers call u
peace In this the Russian armies might fight.
remembered that the Russians ide not for
courage but for lack Of belief They do not believe in
But If government supported by Them which they
believed should try peace and the peace should fall
might fight vigorously they have Of
f5n done before.
quite useless attempt much in Russia except what
Russia wills The country Is too vast its distance too great
The nation will perhaps repeat the story of France passing
through counter revolution to state of order
being the control of military power the hands
OF somebody able to use it.
The past precedent today In the past
present cannot be interpreted without
standing Europe there millions of men, taught
evs that Nicholas Lenine and Leon Trot
sky brought the by Of revolution represent that
vision OF the last half of nineteenth century, working class
heneny upon working ideals The riddle
to read because Its terms without precedent,
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