13 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

"The publication of the correspondence between the Prime Minister and Mr. Henderson respecting the latter's attitude towards the Stockholm conference has caused the Russian Government much embarrassment and exposed it to attacks on the part of the Soviet. In speaking to me on the subject, Tereschenko said that he had instructed the Russian charge d'affaires to inform His Majesty's Government that the Russian Government regarded the Stockholm conference as a party conference, whose decisions would not in any way bind them, but that Nabokoff's covering note to Mr. Balfour, on which the Prime Minister had laid stress, had been written without his instructions. He had never intended him to say that the Russian Government were opposed to the conference. (Mr. Nabokoff had in his note to Mr. Balfour used words that had been interpreted in this sense.)

While both Tereschenko and Kerensky have admitted to me that they would prefer that the con- ference should i^ot take place, they never intended that we should state publicly that they were opposed to it. Kerensky begged me this morning to urge His Majesty's Government not to refuse passports to our Socialists."

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