Three Aspects of the Russian Revolution
we hold that an International Socialist Conference would be morally impossible."
Some days later, in another letter to the Soviet, Henderson, anxious to see the Socialists of the Allied countries clearly define their points of view, announced the convocation in London for the middle of July of a Conference of the Socialists of the Allied nations.
About the same time we had a long conversation in a friend's house with Skobeleff, Kerensky, and Tseretelli, who was, and who still is, we believe, the President of the Committee of Foreign Affairs at the Soviet.
Tseretelli, who had begun by taking a high hand, imagining that the services rendered to Socialism by the Russian Revolution gave him, in a sense, the right to pose as arbiter in an International Conference, seemed very much impressed when we told him that we would not allow it to take place. Finally, he promised us, in his own name, to insist with the Soviet that delegates be sent to London with a view to acquiring information and coming to an understanding on the conditions of
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