As an inducement to the Allies to bow to his wishes, he pointed to Germany's achievement in Russia, where a beaten enemy, "_perceiving no reason for fighting longer_," clasped hands with the generous Huns. The world has since learned with appalling horror with what tender mercy the barbarous Teutons reciprocated the grasping of hands of defeated Russia, tendered to them by the "bolshevikis" traitors. The Allies had then to select one of the three above mentioned alternatives. They have made their choice and they will stick close to it until it is achieved by the victory of their arms. Knowing as they do that the future of their peoples, and that of the whole world, are at stake, they will not waver in their heroic determination to free Humanity from Germany's cruel yoke. Viewed from the commanding height it requires to be worthily appreciated, the joint military effort of the Allies offers a truly grand spectacle, daily enlarging and getting more gloriously magnificent. All the Allies--every one of them--are doing their duty and their respective share in the great crisis they are pledged to bring to a triumphant conclusion. Belgium and Servia were the first to be martyred, but the hour of their resurrection is getting nearer every day. France, the British Empire, the United States, Italy, have done and are doing wonders. There can, there must be no question of appraising their respective merit with the intention of giving more credit either to the one or to the other. With the greatest possible sincerity, I affirm my humble, but positive, opinion that each one of the Allies has done and is doing, with overflowing measure, all that courage could and can earnestly perform, all that patriotism and the noblest national virtues can inspire. France has been heroic to the highest limit. The British Empire--Great Britain and her Colonies--has been grand in her unswerving determination to fight to a finish. The great American Republic is putting forth a wonderful exhibition of pluck, of strength, of boldness, of inexhaustible resources. Italy has stood nobly with her new friends ever since she broke away from the Triple Alliance, to escape the dishonour of remaining on good terms with the Central Empires in the shameful depth of their ignominious course. She has bravely gone through days of disaster which she has heroically redeemed. All the Allies, bound together by the most admirable unity of purpose, only rivalling in the might of their respective patriotic effort, having nobly _"chosen their course upon principle,"_ can never turn back. They must move steadily forward until victorious. They are indomitable in their decision not to live, under any circumstances, "_in a world governed by intrigue and force_."