[ [263] This latter fact was doubtless known to the British government, which decided as early as March to recall the British troops from northern Russia.
[ [264] I published the facts in The Daily Telegraph, April 21, and The Public Ledger of Philadelphia, April 10, 1919.
[ [265] Colonel House is said to have dissociated himself from the President on this occasion.
[ [266] It was sent at the end of October, 1918, and to my knowledge was not published in full.
[ [267] Omsk, Ekaterinodar, Archangel, and the Crimea. The last-named disappeared soon afterward.
[ [268] See Chapter IV "Censorship and Secrecy," p. 132.
[ [269] Pertinax in L'Echo de Paris, July 5, 1919.
[ [270] This admission was made to a distinguished member of the Diplomatic Corps.
[ [271] In The Daily Telegraph, June 19, 1919, and in The Public Ledger of Philadelphia.
[ [272] In July M. Pichon told the Esthonian delegates that France recognized the independence of their country in principle. But this declaration was not taken seriously, either by the Russians or by the French.