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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt:...people, if not all. The more the citizens will take part in the government, the better. I say "Peasant" because 85 per cent of the Russian population are peasants, and I think it is only fair that they should have the most to say in the government of their country. And, finally, I say "Republic" because I think that is the only form of government that can guard ns against any possible monarchical restoration. Shell-Shocked America By Bruce Bliven Associate Editor, New York Globe ALL our public men who go to Europe--and nearly all of those who don't--make speeches or write articles telling what America ought to do to aid the rehabilitation of a warwrecked world. These worthy gentlemen do not agree with one another as to details, but they are pretty well in accord as to the underlying attitude which they demand (with indignation or pathos, according to temperament) that America should assume. They ask us to be unselfish, or at the least, selfish in the enlightened spirit which casts its bread upon the water now in the expectation that the next tide will bring it back with compound interest. They demand that we shall take a broad, intelligent view of the whole complex situation, based on a thorough understanding of the fundamental economic problems. They implore us to resume the moral leadership of all humanity which we won during the War and lost during the peace. They beseech us not to insist on the repayment of the huge sums owed us by the allies, sums which (1) cannot be paid because of the debtors' bankruptcy; (2) if they were by some miracle to be liquidated, would wreck our foreign trade, or fearfully inflate our currency or both, and (3) were spent in America by nations fighting the battle of civilization, in a struggle which was th...