vided 14,000 tons of food. They further promised aid to all Russian
provinces as fast as they should drive out the Bolsheviki, or at least
deprive them of power. This meant a shipment in three months of
200,000 tons of food, clothing, agricultural supplies, and railroad
equipment.

The world expects Russia to regain her equilibrium and reach the
greatest heights of power ever known in her history. Her possessions
will not be as large as they were before the World War, because of the
loss of Finland, and of provinces in the west and south which are
likely to become independent states.

In America the boys and girls scarcely realize what the blessings of
freedom mean, as the children of the new countries do. But that
America is indeed blessed with liberty and happiness is shown by the
closeness with which the new nations have followed her as a pattern.
Their appreciation of this country was clearly expressed in the
Czecho-Slovak Declaration of Independence, and again when President
Masaryk at the Hague, on December 30, 1918, spoke as follows:--

"Komensky's historic prayer has literally been fulfilled and our
people, free and independent, advances, respected and supported by
universal sympathy, into the community of European nations. Are we
living in a fairy tale? Politicians of all countries are asking this.
I put the same question to myself and yet it is all an actual reality.

"When the German victories seemed about to realize the Pan-German plan
of the subjection of the whole of the Old World, America stepped out of
its reserve, replaced weary and betrayed Russia and within a short time
Marshal Foch dictated terms to beaten Germany and Austria-Hungary.

"President Wilson formulated the leading principle of democracy which
is contained in the American Declaration of Independence, where, as in
the French Declaration of the Rights of Man, revolution triumphed and
established that all political power comes from the people. And as
Lincoln said, is of the people, by the people, and for the people.

"President Wilson proclaimed as the object of the war the liberation of
all mankind. We Czechs and Slovaks could not stand aside in this world
war. We were obliged to decide against Austria-Hungary and Germany for
our whole history led us to democratic powers.

"In May of last year I was obliged to go to Russia whence in the
beginning of March I went to Japan and from Japan to the United
States,--a remarkable and