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WILSON GIVES
RUSSIA HOPE
SAYS TOLSTOY

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Soviet Congress Can
Now Save Russia.
He Believes.

DEMOCRACY GROWINC

Unless Bolsheviki Dis-
solves Convention They
Will Repudiate Peace.

By COUNT ILYA TOLSTOY.

President Wilson's appeal to
the all-Russian Soviets' Congress,
now in session at Moscow, has
produced a profound impression
upon me, both as a Russian who
loves his country and as a man
who has profound faith in the ul-
timate triumph of justice upon
the earth and who inflexibly be-
lieves that God, dwells in right
and not in might.

I hesitate to predict the results
that will be taken by the confer-
ence to-day. I hesitate to yield
to my instinct of oprimism and to
venture the prediction that Mos-
cow will refuse to ratify the peace
which has been imposed upon us
by Germany.

It seems to me that if the confer-
ence is held and it is not dissolved
by the Bolsheviki as the constituent
[illegible] was dissolved, the decision
of the congress will be against a
[illegible] peace. But even at the
worst, even if the views of Lenine
should triumph at the conference
and the treaty of peace should be
ratified. America's appeal to Russia
will produce its results and its influ-
ence will be felt upon the immediate
destinies of my country.

DEMOCRACY GROWING.

I am convinced that the great idea
of demoeracy is penetrating with
greater and greater force into the