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REVOLUTION [chap. xxiv.
the former smart world of Petrograd. This same world
will probably revile him later on. For our Foreign
Office staff his appointment was invaluable; all kept
their posts and those who had had some influence
over M. Sazonoff had a great deal more over the new
Minister, who had no experience of his work. Abroad
all Miliukoff’s appointments were adhered to, including
mine. There were, however, a few victims on the list,
some Consuls were sacrificed to the spite of the former
political exiles suddenly become the undisputed heads
of Russian colonies abroad. And as the Socialist
principle is as a rule against State pensions, these poor
functionaries, of whom some were old and the fathers
of families, were just turned into the streets after
twenty-five and thirty years’ service !
Kerensky’s attitude towards the fallen Emperor
and his family was also most favourably commented on
by the Press and by rumours in circulation. And
when the unfortunate family was sent to Tobolsk, in
Siberia, every one thought that this measure had been
dictated by the new Government’s—alias Kerensky’s—
wish to save Nicolas II. and his family from the dangers
which might arise for them at any moment from the
Soviet of Petrograd, and to cause them to be as it were
forgotten through absence till such time as they could
be surreptitiously sent abroad.
But above and before all Kerensky proved his worth
by his untiring zeal and feverish activity in favour of
the cause of the Allies and of the prosecution of the
war. In fiery speeches, becoming ever more numerous,
and during propaganda trips which he made to the
front, to Moscow, to Kieff and back again to the front,
he exhorted " the soldiers of liberty " to remain loyal to
the Allies, to fight, to conquer. Through the telegraphic
agencies we abroad read the text of his stirring speeches,
the accounts of the enthusiasm of the " revolutionary
army," the promises of an early renewal of the most
splendid military operations. And everybody—
Russians and Allies—wished to persuade themselves
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