offer their services; every large
restaurant has a host of waiters; the wharves on the Volga
and, in conclusion, the mere throngs on the streets bear
witness to the fact that nothing resembling the "crisis in
men" exists with us. Numerous as have been the soldiers who
have gone to the war, the supply of men who are capable of
bearing arms is still colossally great with us.
Consequently, we have the material to fill up losses in the
army. And that being the case, we can go on with the war for
a long time to come--for as long a time as may be necessary
to bring it to a proper ending.

[Illustration: TAKE JONESCO

A Former Cabinet Minister, and Leader of Pro-Ally Party in Rumania

(_Photo from Central News._)]

[Illustration: DEMETRIOS GOUNARIS

Leader of the Neutralist Party, who Succeeded Venizelos as Premier of
Greece]

Austria and the Balkans

Germanic influences in the Balkan Peninsula are discussed by A.
Pogodin in the magazine Russian Thought. Mr. Pogodin says:

Without having in view any acquisitions whatsoever in the
northern part of the Peninsula, Russia is deeply interested
in seeing to it that Germanic influence does not acquire
preponderance there, because that influence, in its turn,
has no aims save territorial acquisition. The Balkan
Peninsula is admitted to be the most influential camp of
Pan-Germanism for the colony desired by the Germanic world,
from which it is but a step to Central Asia. And it was this
plan that Russia was compelled to combat. Unfortunately, she
resisted too feebly, and our diplomacy betrayed an extremely
poor comprehension of Russian problems. Austria's snatching
appetite was fully revealed in the formula of partition of
the Peninsula into two spheres of influence: Austria was to
have Serbia and Bosnia, Russia the Bulgarian provinces of
the Ottoman Empire. We all know how that ended: Serbia was
abandoned by Russia at the Berlin Congress, and had no
choice but to throw herself into the arms of Austria, which
wrought fearful demoralization in the land. Tens of years
were required before little, tormented Serbia--which had
not, nevertheless, lost her freshness of spiritual power
"found herself," that is to say, turned again to Russia, and
did not reject her even during the period of the
persecutions of 1908 wh