my opinion these are questions absolutely
foreign to the events leading up to the war. The Russian, French,
English, and Servian nations are not fighting against German culture,
as represented by intellectual giants, such as Goethe, Wagner, and many
others, but against German militarism, accompanied by systematic
oppression of the individual residing in German territory.

This internal German policy created a national spirit against which the
Allies now are fighting--the national spirit of Germany, which the whole
world knows, and which is rough, conceited, arrogant, and intolerant
toward foreigners beyond all measures, and admits nothing good unless it
is German or made in Germany. This kind of German national spirit is in
the majority in the empire of Germany and particularly in Prussia; the
real cultured, good-hearted, sentimental German is about to die out
completely, and the few remaining representatives of this type have no
voice in Germany.

The pronounced antipathy to the above-described present majority type of
Germans united all European nations against Germany, and supports their
respective Governments in their efforts to put a stop to the furor
teutonicus of the twentieth century.

For this reason the task of the allied Governments will find unlimited
support of the nations and this war against Germany in Europe will prove
to be most popular.

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RUSSIA'S "LITTLE BROTHER."

Statement by George Bakhmeteff, Russian Ambassador to the United
States, New York, Oct. 11.

It will be a long time, I suppose, before the American will be able
fully to understand Russia's reasons for entering the present war and
the great racial thought that lies back of it. The whole situation in a
nutshell is that Germany entered the war from racial hate and motives of
commercial greed, while Russia drew her sword out of motives of humane
and kindly sympathy for a small and oppressed nation of her own kindred.
Germany had been grabbing and wished to grab more; Russia rose in arms
to stand by and protect her "little brother."

Indeed you are quite right when you say that there are spiritual forces
back of Russia's deeds in battle far more than there can be in the case
of any other of the warring nations. The reasons lie deep within our
national life, and I doubt if any American will be able fully to
comprehend them without coming to see us in our own country and seeing
us as w