SCENES IN THE GREAT WAR
a simple people, often humble in their ignorance but always strong in their faith—in the certainty that there is something else in God's world besides greed and gold, something higher than "the will to power," something better for a nation than, to enlarge its empire, and that is to possess its soul.
And now in their hour of trial let us salute our brave Allies in the East. Let us assure them of the sincerity of our alliance. We rejoice in their victories. We count their triumphs as our own. When we hear of their reverses our hearts are full. We feel that out of the storm of battle a great new spirit has been born into Russia, awakening her from a sleep of centuries. We feel, too, that a great new spirit of brotherhood has been born into the world, uniting the scattered and divided parts of it, and that there is no more moving manifestation of the unity of mankind than the fact that the Russian and British peoples, after long years of misunderstanding, are now fighting for the same cause from opposite sides of Europe. May they soon meet and clasp hands!
THE PART PLAYED BY POLAND
And then Poland. Down to the end of the
first year of war the part played by Poland has
been that of absolute martyr. Like the water-mill
in Zola's story she has first been disabled by
