Our Allies ought not, therefore to have slightest misconception as to our desire or determination to stand by them until the bitter or the glorious end.
if we waited before starting on our offensive, this was due only to do the conditions and circumstance which I have just described; it was not because our men had become demoralized or because we had not the material means to execute what was required from us.
In spite of all the rumors to the contrary laboriously disseminated everywhere by the Germans,we lack neither soldiers, nor ammunition.
The only weak point against which we have to contend is the difficulty of bringing this ammunition to the front in the future.
I am using, with intention,the word future because for the present the advancing masses which General Brusiloff has thrown against the Teuton lines are more than sufficiently provided with what they require.
But it has taken months to achieve this resul,months which might have been more usefully employed in fighting our formidable for.
The question of transport in general remains the dark point in the whole Russian situation and this question cannot be solved by Russia alone.
I'm required to be handled also by her Allies and especially by America, who can furnish her with the material which she required.
The presence in Petrograd of the Special Miss,headed by Mr.Root,has been in the respect of inestimable value,not only because it has helped to establish relationship of confidence judgement in regard to Russian resources,which have been so seriously questioned lately and the importance of which has been so wrongly estimated by the detractors of my country.
Russian is still the land of the future,materially as well as financially and though from the latter point of view she may find herself compelled to face a crisis after the war is over, she will easily withstand it, provided her friends extend to get help which she will need