d me, planning to run any
unnecessary chances of losing their lives in actual fighting against the
Czechs or any other enemy of the Bolsheviks for that amount of money, if
they could avoid it; not a very difficult matter.

Allied military support of the Czechs in Siberia is not Japanese
intervention, and sentiment in Russia and Siberia against intervention
to-day is now what it was six months ago. If the Bolsheviki do not
represent the people of Russia, the only way the Russian people can
develop confidence in themselves, and strength, is to throw off the
Bolsheviki. The Archangel and Siberian regions have started such moves.

Siberia seems ready to welcome the Czechs, and if the Allied forces in
Siberia keep themselves sufficiently in the background, Siberia will
probably welcome the friends of the Czechs. The Allies have failed in
Russia in the past because they have trusted upon material equipment
rather than upon education of the people in the ideals of our cause. A
certain amount of military intervention is necessary in Siberia if we
are to protect the Czechs and protect the supplies which an economic
mission would furnish. The danger lies in taking the control of that
military intervention out of the hands of the Czechs. If my observation
among all classes in Siberia counts for anything, the day the non-Slavic
forces of the Allies, especially the Japanese, whom the Russians
despise, move ahead of the Czechs who have already the confidence of the
Russians as no Allied army could, that day the Allied army will
encounter difficulties. This may spell tragedy for the cause of
democracy.

[Sidenote: Siberia differs from Russia.]

In general the Volga divides Siberia, the home of the freedom-seeking
exile, from Russia, in which for years German ideas have been encouraged
to the exclusion of French and English. Whole sections of Russia and
Siberia will starve this winter. If we follow the Czechs into Siberia
with economic aid, repairing and consolidating the railroad lines behind
them, installing modern methods of distribution we can then say to the
stricken people--"Some of you are starving, but this is in spite of all
the aid we can give." But across the Volga in Russia the people will say
to Germany--"We are starving because you took our food, because you
forced disorganization which has ruined us." Spring will allow the
intelligent Russian peasant to compare such Americanism with the blight
of Prussianism. Never f