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 General of America which, existed at that time at Moscow under the Swedish flag, was to enlighten me in regard to a whole series of facts and actions of which I had as yet no idea whatsoever!

The intervention which I had supported (even in my blindness when it appeared to me as realized against the Bolsheviks) had constantly remained in my mind directed first and foremost against German Imperialism and destined to give economic aid to the Russian people, particularly with provisions. I have already had occasion to remind the reader that tins economic aid had been promised on various occasions most categorically by our official representatives, and in considering it as a certainty, as the basis even on which our Military action was to be founded I was under no circumstances the victim of a „hallucination“, of a „dream“ but, on the contrary, I was simply holding strictly to the formal assurances that had been given to me. But never had the suspicion even entered my head that our representatives in Russia might have in view an intervention of a different kind, an intervention perhaps destined to overthrow the Bolsheviks and without hesitating, in order to achieve their end, to take measures such as must surely bring about frightful sufferings of the Russian people and which, to culminate matters, from the point of view of the war, could not, even indirectly, affect German Imperialism. Had I known of an intervention of this kind,—at least by certain representatives of the Entente Governments in Russia,—not only would I never have given my support to it, but even when in favour, erroneously in favour of