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(1918) [MARC] Author: Alfons Heyking - Tema: Russia
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INTRODUCTION

another in the Great War of 1914 up to the advent of the
Bolshevist Government in Russia, established a cordial
co-operation. However, the last phase of the Russian
Revolution, with its repudiation of all treaty and financial
obligations, the conclusion of peace with the enemy, and
the war waged against the educated classes throughout
the world, have nullified the former close friendly
relations, even reducing to naught ordinary diplomatic
connections.

It must never be lost sight of that the maintenance of
close relations between the British and Russian people is
of vital importance to Russia as well as to Great Britain.
And herein lies the meaning and significance of the desire
to draw the bonds of friendship between the British and
Russian nations closer together. It is not a mere bubble
on the surface of the life of the nation, a passing whim and
wish, but, on the contrary, it is a movement deeply rooted
and based upon a firm foundation. It is founded alike on
the dictates of reason and intelligence as well as on the
demands of the heart.

It is also the result of a fundamental change in the
character of the British nation, which has perhaps no parallel
in its history. A new and better order of things arises in
such stocktaking times of great trial, when nations by the
force of events part with preconceived ideas, erroneous
conceptions of the past and exploded bugbears of old.
This refers especially to the impracticable idea of splendid
isolation; the false conception of the unsympathetic
foreigner as a whole, without making due allowance for
the difference between friend and foe ; and the ungrounded
fear of Russia as a rival and enemy endangering the
safety of the British Empire.

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