The Provisional Government: Premiership of Prince Lvov-Continued RECEPTION OF PRESIDENT WILSON'S MESSAGE OF MAY 22, 1917, ON THE OBJECTS OF THE UNITED STATES IN THE WAR-THE KRONSTADT REVOLT-ALL-RUSSIAN CONGRESSES OF WORKMEN'S AND SOLDIERS' DEPUTIES, OF PEASANTs, of COSSACKS OPENING OF THE RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE IN GALICIA 1917 1348 May 31 1456 May 31 1460 From the Ambas- President Wilson's message on the 86 To the Ambas- Inquiry if the President's message Immediate answer to the Presi- Foreign Minister requests alter- The President's message was not a Further explanation as to delay in Asks that certain passages in the Transmits note of June 4 from the Foreign Minister desirous that 38 86 87 87 The Provisional Government: Premiership of Prince Lvov-Continued Continuing to request alteration in the President's message before publication. 33 93 93 Date for 94 Foreign Minister realizes that message cannot be altered. publication will be cabled. Communicates date set for publication of the President's message. Asks if news agency has forwarded President Wilson's message to any country, as copies are to be recalled for alterations. Publication date of the President's message. Revolt in Kronstadt. 94 95 Petrograd Soviet supports the Provisional Government against the Kronstadt revolutionaries. test of Bolsheviks. 95 Pro Russian Minister in Sweden tells of unsettled conditions in Russia, the Kronstadt affair, and labor disturbances. The President's message will be given to the press June 10 without alteration. The President's message released for publication June 10, with no alterations. Russian peasant congress resolves to stop all supplies to Kronstadt unless it acknowledges Provisional Government. Lenin's speech before the Congress of Soviets of Workmen's and Soldiers' Deputies is pronounced by Kerensky the same as that of a German commander. Bolshevik press advocates demonstrations against the Government. British Ambassador calls a conference of Allied representatives to consider output of munitions in Russia. Demonstration against the Government is unsuccessful and anarchists are arrested. Russians gain on southeast front. Attitude toward prosecuting war shown by conventions of Cossacks and of All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workmen's and Soldiers' Deputies. Government arrests anarchists. |