Page:Emile Vandervelde - Three Aspects of the Russian Revolution - tr. Jean Elmslie Henderson Findlay (1918).djvu/13



HAVE endeavoured in this little book to give a description of our mission to Russia, when Louis de Brouckère, Henri de Man and myself went to carry to the Russian Revolution the greeting of the Belgian Labour Party and to discuss with our comrades of Petrograd the question of the International Conference at Stockholm.

Leaving London on the 6th of May 1917, we reached Petrograd on the 18th of May, stopping three days on our way at Stockholm. We remained there until the 5th of June, except for a brief visit which two of us paid to Moscow. Afterwards, on the invitation of General Alexeieff, we spent a fortnight at the front, going thereafter to Roumania, returning to Petrograd on the 24th of June, and leaving for Le Havre, viâ Stockholm, on the 25th of June.