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 bring the Cadet Party to power. No doubt they began to fear that the Cadet Party was no longer capable of seizing the reins of power itself, and to think that the only means of placing them into its hands was by Military Dictatorship. The days of the Moscow Assembly (August 1917), which was convoced by Kerensky, who in this manner hoped to defintely strengthen the position of the Provisional Government, until the Constituent Assembly would have met, have left in my mind an ineffceable recollection. I was present at the Assemblies which took place in the Grand Theatre, im a box reserved for members of the Diplomatic Corps. I shall never forget the painful and pathetic moment when an outburst of applause, coming from just one half of the Assembly, greeted the appearance of General Korniloff, at that time Commander-in-chief of the Armies. I had just time enough to scan this demonstration, the character of which it was not possible to doubt, and to take note of the fact that ail the Soldiers' and Sailors' deputies had remained seated in impressive silence, when, behind me, I heard an exclamation, made by an English General, the official representative of the BritichBritish [sic] Embassy. „He is the dictator“. These words, spoken, carlesslycarelessly [sic] though not without a touch of triumph, which, in view of the general atmosphere of the Assembly, sounded like defiance, had only just been uttered when a Roumanian General emphasised them, as it were, in a cold and biting observation. „And those soldiers,—he said,—who do not even stand up before their General deserve to be shot!“ Just as though these soldiers were there in the capacity of mere