. Review of reviews and world's work . te supplies in Austria. Italywas induced also to relax certain regulationswhich had made it difficult to send Americanrelief into Czechoslovakia and the South Slavdistricts. Mr. Hoovers revised estimates ofsupply and demand led him to announce lastmonth that wheat prices would remain nor-mally high, and that the United States Gov-ernment was not likely to incur the estimatedloss of a billion dollars—nor indeed any lossat all—by reason of its guarantee of $ bushel for the American wheat output of1919. There will be a desperate effort dur-ing the gro
. Review of reviews and world's work . te supplies in Austria. Italywas induced also to relax certain regulationswhich had made it difficult to send Americanrelief into Czechoslovakia and the South Slavdistricts. Mr. Hoovers revised estimates ofsupply and demand led him to announce lastmonth that wheat prices would remain nor-mally high, and that the United States Gov-ernment was not likely to incur the estimatedloss of a billion dollars—nor indeed any lossat all—by reason of its guarantee of $ bushel for the American wheat output of1919. There will be a desperate effort dur-ing the growing season, that begins with thepresent month of April in the north temper-ate zone, to raise food enough to relieve thefamished world. Europe hopes for abun-dance, with a good crop year. In February the alcrf and bril- Reaurgence liant wfitcrs of leading articles iiiuaion -j^ ^j^^ p>cnch iicwspapers, who are guided by the controlling statesmanship of the day, were proclaiming (as telegraphed 348 THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF REVIEWS. © Harris & Ewing, Washington. D. C. HON. DAVID R. FRANCIS, AMBASSADOR TO RUSSIA(Mr. Francis had left Petrograd early last year, andhad spent a considerable peried in northern Russia andSiberia before returning to the United States. He tes-tified last month before a Senate committee on condi-tions in Russia) to America and to the ends of the earth) theamazing resurgence of Germany. Itlooked, indeed, as if Germany, having beenquite at the mercy of the victors in Novem-ber, had been making a swift recovery andwas assuming an attitude that might meantrouble again in the near future. The con-vention that met at Weimar had been sur-prisingly unanimous in its support of Ebert,and in its immediate acceptance of the pro-visional constitution; and the inciters of revo-lutionary disorder had seemed to be entirelysuppressed. But disorder broke out again allover Germany, and the French press in duetime recovered its poise. The resurgencewas illusory. There i
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