It is unfair for anyone not on the of and personally acquainted with events in Siberia to condemn the Czechs wholesale for giving ap Admiral Koltchak. Mr. David Fraser's last paragraph strikes one as giving the right judgement: the Czech leaders were those really to blame for undertaking a charge they were not sure they would be able to fulfil. Meanwhile, the Allies will be very much to blame indeed if they do not make the most powerful efforts to save Admiral Koltchak from the fate of the Tsar, the Grand Duke Nicholas fand others. Admiral Koltchak has had a gallant career and has striven heroically against misfortune. It is said that recently he had become most unpopular among the Czechs. But there seems reason to believe that the shortcomings laid to his charge were those of his entourage, and that he himself was neither autocratic nor desirous of restoring autocracy in Russia. Above all it cannot be forgotten that he was once treated as the champion of the Allies' hopes of a White Russia against Rolshevism, was helped by them and accorded the respect to his title as Supreme Ruler. He has failed and has been given up to his enemies in a way that one cannot think of very calmly. The Allies' honour is bound up in seeing that he does not pay the penalty for his subordinates' ineptitude and the apathy of his followers.
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