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224 are inclined to admit us into the new Government,” he told me. “The right wing groups are frightened by the Revolutionary Tribunals; they demand, in a sort of panic, that we dissolve them before going any further… We have

Order given me at Staff headquarters by command of the Council of People’s Commissars, to transmit the first despatch out of Petrograd after the November Revolution, over the Government wires to America. (Translation) STAFF Military Revolutionary Committee Sov. W. & S. D. 2 November, 1917 No. 1860 CERTIFICATE Is given by the present to the journalist of the New York Socialist press, that the text of the telegram (herewith) has been examined by the Government of People’s Commissars, and there is no objection to its transmission, and also it is recommended that all cooperate in every way to transmit same to its destination. For the Commander in Chief, Chief of Staff,. -

the proposition of the Vikzhel to form a homogeneous Socialist Ministry, and they’re working on that now. You see, it all springs from our victory. When we were down, they wouldn’t have us at any price; now everybody’s in favour of some agreement with the Soviets… What we need is a