. The Saturday evening post. judiced or deluded themselves, were being mistaken forthe only authoritative exponents of the nations feelingsand wishes. This, however, is a subject which I shall haveto revert to later in attempting to analyze the causes ofthe prolonged prevalence of a not only totally erroneousbut also surprisingly shallow view of perhaps the mosttragic and in its remote possibilities perhaps the most sinis-ter event in the whole history of civilization. But there was one feature in the outbreak of the Russianrevolution which, one would think, should have openedthe eyes of even
. The Saturday evening post. judiced or deluded themselves, were being mistaken forthe only authoritative exponents of the nations feelingsand wishes. This, however, is a subject which I shall haveto revert to later in attempting to analyze the causes ofthe prolonged prevalence of a not only totally erroneousbut also surprisingly shallow view of perhaps the mosttragic and in its remote possibilities perhaps the most sinis-ter event in the whole history of civilization. But there was one feature in the outbreak of the Russianrevolution which, one would think, should have openedthe eyes of even the most superficial observer of the eventto the fact that the revolution meant, not the advent ofan improved or even simply a new form of governmentbut nothing more or less than the advent of anarchy, atfirst in a comparatively mild form, but which from week toweek nay, from day to day was bound to become moreaccentuated, and that therefore all expectations based on MON MO* Former Embassador From Russia to the United States. OERWOOO A Temple of Our Saviour, Moscow the overthrow of the imperial government were necessarilydoomed to disappointment. That feature was the leading part assumed from thevery first days of the revolution by a so-called Soviet ofWorkmens and Soldiers Delegates, organized in haste byprofessional revolutionists, which had established its head-quarters in the Taurida Palace and was holding its meet-ings in the hall of sittings of the Duma. Neither theprovincial executive committee of the Duma nor the pro-visional government which it had been suffered to appointwith the consent of the soviet was ever for a moment any-thing but a government in name, the real power resting withthe soviet, the only body whose authority was being fullyacknowledged by the forces that had achieved the revolu-tion— the mutinous soldiery and therevolutionary workmen. In this connection I cannot help quoting from an articleI have just come across in one of the New York dailies thet
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