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Russia in 1916

can grasp it. That is a splendid improvement on last year when we got only those laconic non-committal communiqués which for our English newspapers our smart English journalists can cause to blossom with occult significance, but which in very truth translated into Russian merely gave the impression that we were doing nothing.

Russia feels us closer. The distance across is not so great. Day by day everyone feels that we are all working happily together for one end and with one interest.

The visits of the journalists and the parliamentarians to the West have also helped a great deal. The journalists wrote their impressions very fully and expressed themselves with great enthusiasm. Their contributions on the subject lingered on throughout the summer. And now they are collecting their articles and re-issuing them in book form. Nabokof's "From Militant England" has already had considerable success. Lectures have also been

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