l, he was isolated by the French authorities
and forbidden to visit his army. The French then began the forcible
return of the soldiers to Soviet Russia. As an alternative they could go
to Brazil. But the first transports for Brazil were stopped by wireless.
The Government of Brazil, after all, did not agree to receive the
Russians. So these miserables were put on the island of Corsica. Of the
others little is known. Large numbers have been returned to Russia.
Serbia and Czecho-Slovakia have covenanted to take a few thousand.

As for the civilian refugees, a hundred thousand of them are in desperate
straits. They cannot live in Constantinople, and they cannot get away.
It is a death-trap for them. For the women it is a trap far worse than
death. They are unpopular people in Europe now--the gentry of Russia,
people of education and gentle upbringing, the people of the old landed
families. I observe that with the signing of the trade treaty with
Soviet Russia funds have at once been started with the object of feeding
starving Russians in Russia. Charities are a British and American vice,
but something, not necessarily money, is due to the Russian refugees.
Human attention is needed--an honourable effort to solve the problem of
making these Russians self-supporting economic units. Mr. Ilin, at the
head of the Russian organization, is the man to approach. He is a
capable, quiet Russian, who is under no illusions as to the enormity of
the task or the difficulty of coping with it.

I met a Countess Trubetskoy, as poor as poor. "All I ask is something to
take my mind off our coming fate," said she. "Imagine it. I am reading
the Tarzan series of novels right through. Just to forget." They wish
to forget, and we, who used to talk of loving the Russians,--we have
forgotten.

EXTRA LEAVES

(ii) _On "Charity" and the Stagnation of Peoples_

In company with Mme. Tyrkova-Williams, I subsequently visited the
offices of the "Save the Children Fund" in London to try to get some
extra help for Constantinople, being convinced that the sufferings of
the children there far exceeded those of the children of Vienna and
Budapest and Prague. But no money can save the Russians at
Constantinople, or the "little things" which Wrangel's army leaves
behind them. Refugee men and women ought, perhaps, to be fruitless,
but they are not. The birthrate at Gallipoli and Constantinople is
high, and the lying-in hospitals are