Approaches to the great settlement . elves. The Russian state-ment of what terms she would fight for, and whatshe would not, and her demand that the Allies re-state their terms, had to be taken into account. Debate in British Parliament. The question ofwhat the British attitude should be toward theRussian peace-formula was raised in Parliament onMay 16 by Philip Snowden. He introduced a reso-lution welcoming the declaration of the new demo-cratic Government of Russia,^ and calling on His 1 The declaration referred to was the Proclamation of the Pro-visional Government of Russia, issued April 9
Approaches to the great settlement . elves. The Russian state-ment of what terms she would fight for, and whatshe would not, and her demand that the Allies re-state their terms, had to be taken into account. Debate in British Parliament. The question ofwhat the British attitude should be toward theRussian peace-formula was raised in Parliament onMay 16 by Philip Snowden. He introduced a reso-lution welcoming the declaration of the new demo-cratic Government of Russia,^ and calling on His 1 The declaration referred to was the Proclamation of the Pro-visional Government of Russia, issued April 9, and brought to thenotice of the Allied Governments in a note of May i. TheProclamation is as follows: The Government deems it to be its right and duty to declarenow that free Russia does not aim at the domination of othernations, at depriving them of their national patrimony, or at occu-pying by force foreign territories, but that its object is to establisha durable peace on the rights of nations to decide their own des-tiny. [72]. Photo by Paul Thompson ALEXANDER KERENSKYDuring the first of May manifestations, addressingthe crowd on the Field of Mars, with his arm in a sling. Majestys Government to Issue a similar declara-tion for British democracy and to join with theAllies in restating the Allied terms in conformitywith the Russian declaration. If Great Britain, he said, was to continue to be allied withRussia it must set itself in line with her policy. This debatewas to ascertain whether the British Government regardedthe treaties made with the old imperialistic order inRussia as still binding. The real motive of the RussianRevolution was objection to continuing the war for im-perialistic ambitions. He believed Russia expressed the de-sire of democracies in all countries. Scheidemann had de-clared that if France and Great Britain supported the Rus-sian declaration and the German Chancellor refused, therewould be a revolution in Germanj^ The Allied noteof January, he decla
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