. Mediæval and modern history . draft a constitution. The news of the revolu-tion was received by liberals everywhere with unbounded en-thusiasm. The UnitedStates straightway rec-ognized the new gov-ernment and welcomedRussia as a memberof the family of freenations. Unfortunately thedraught of liberty wastoo strong. The Russianpeople, suddenly freedfrom autocratic tyranny,were intoxicated. Theywere in a state of be-wilderment. Hundreds ofGerman agents crossedthe frontier and incitedsedition, disorder, andtreason. The provisionalgovernment made heroicbut unavailing efforts tohold back the count
. Mediæval and modern history . draft a constitution. The news of the revolu-tion was received by liberals everywhere with unbounded en-thusiasm. The UnitedStates straightway rec-ognized the new gov-ernment and welcomedRussia as a memberof the family of freenations. Unfortunately thedraught of liberty wastoo strong. The Russianpeople, suddenly freedfrom autocratic tyranny,were intoxicated. Theywere in a state of be-wilderment. Hundreds ofGerman agents crossedthe frontier and incitedsedition, disorder, andtreason. The provisionalgovernment made heroicbut unavailing efforts tohold back the countryfrom anarchy. The armyfell into a state of dis-order and confusion. Ofthis collapse of Russiaand her practical elimination as a military factor from the warwe shall speak later. 722. The United States enters the War (April 6, 1917). Onthe second day of April, 1917, President Wilson addressed bothHouses of Congress, called in extraordinary session, on ttie resultsof the unrestricted operations of the German submarines resumed. The Last of the Romanoffs(From a photograph) After his abdication the ex-Tsar Nicholas II becamea prisoner of the Russian revokitionary was finally taken to Siberia, where he and hiswife and children were murdered by the Bolshevists,who had seized supreme power. His seat here isthe stump of a tree which he has just felled § 722] THE UNITED STATES ENTERS THE WAR 651 two months before. The new policy, he said, has swept everyrestriction aside—vessels of every kind, whatever their flag, theircharacter, their cargo, their destination, their errand, have beenruthlessly sent to the bottom without warning and without thoughtof help or mercy for those on board. . Even hospital shipsand ships carrying relief to the sorely bereaved and sorely strickenpeople of Belgium , . have been sunk with the same recklesslack of compassion or of principle. . The present German sub-marine warfare against commerce is a warfare against mankind. The Pres
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