ABSTRACT
The activist minority was a reality there: it was an unrelenting conspiracy. This went on through the war and under the Kerensky Government which it finally vanquished. In short the war had indeed "made the world safe for democracy" by bringing forward all states to the same form of government, and such homogeneity of national institutions afforded a good working basis for an international organization, all the members of which professed the same principles and practised the same procedures. The acting chief executive was in fact the prime minister, or president of the council, who formed a team of ministers, drawn like himself from the ranks of parliament, and this government endured in office as long as it held the favor of parliament. Government which, in any regular state of affairs, is the very head of society, the guide and agent of general action, is by such doctrines shorn of any principle of activity.
