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 they have no stomach and will never dare to budge“.

On the other hand, on the eve oî the coup d'Etat, the minister Tereschtchenko, made it known that, on this occasion, the Government was quite undisturbed, that the whole plot, had been discovered and disarmed, and that he held all the threads in his hands; that no surprise was possible as had been the case in July.

And whilst we were thus moving onwards, in complete blindness, towards the October revolution, diplomatic circles, stuck fast to their projects of military dictatorship, were constantly limiting their relations and the circle of their investigations to the right wing; from soviet socialists, like Tseretelly, they passed over, first to socialists of the right wing, and later on to the socialists of the extreme right, to a new bloc, which they christened radical-socialist, and of which Savinkoff was regarded as the left (socialist).

„Soviets means Anarchy“, „What we have to do is to find the man of the hour“, „We have made a great mistake in showing so much respect towards this revolution which becomes ever more hostile to us“. „What we must do now is to break off the erroneous policy of Albert Thomas and give an all-round support to those who are our friends“—such were the phrases that one might hear repeated daily. Moreover, they were in agreement with the axiom that Maklakoff had expressed: „It will be by other men, and under another flag, that the true ideas of the revolution will conquer“. This axiom found very rapid favour in the Embassies where it was unanimously interpreted