4 August 1917. George Buchanan

Non-fiction

Project 1917 is a series of events that took place a hundred years ago as described by those involved. It is composed only of diaries, letters, memoirs, newspapers and other documents

George Buchanan

4, Dvortsovaya embankment, Petrograd, Russian Empire (British Embassy)

Letter to the Foreign Ministry

"I would venture to submit that the time has come for us, in reply to Russia's appeal for our co-operation, to tell her Government frankly that, while we will con- tinue to do all that is possible to relieve the pressure on her front by pushing our offensive, we expect her in return to concentrate all her energies on the re- organization of her armies and to re-establish discipline both at the front and in the rear. It would be well were the Allied Ambassadors to be instructed to speak in the above sense to the president of the council as soon as the new Government is formed.

As a result of the above telegram the representatives of the Allied Governments, assembled in conference in London, sent Kerensky, through their Ambassadors at Petrograd, a message which, though intended as a protest, did but express a pious wish for the re- establishment of disciphne in the army. I was, however, authorized, if T thought it advisable, to speak to him privately, in the name of His Majesty's Government, on the lines which I had suggested."

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