The following conclusions are respectfully submitted:
1. No government save a socialist government can be set up
in Russia to-day except by foreign bayonets, and any
governments so set up will fall the moment such support is
withdrawn. The Lenin wing of the communist party is to-day
as moderate as any socialist government which can control
Russia.
2. No real peace can be established in Europe or the world
until peace is made with the revolution. This proposal of
the Soviet Government presents an opportunity to make peace
with the revolution on a just and reasonable basis--perhaps
a unique opportunity.
3. If the blockade is lifted and supplies begin to be
delivered regularly to soviet Russia, a more powerful hold
over the Russian people will be established than that given
by the blockade itself--the hold given by fear that this
delivery of supplies may be stopped. Furthermore, the
parties which oppose the communists in principle but are
supporting them at present will be able to begin to fight
against them.
4. It is, therefore, respectfully recommended that a
proposal following the general lines of the suggestion of
the Soviet Government should be made at the earliest
possible moment, such changes being made, particularly in
article 4 and article 5, as will make the proposal
acceptable to conservative opinion in the allied and
associated countries.
Very respectfully submitted.