In Russia proper the Soviet authorities and radical public opinion
opposed foreign intervention of any kind. Late in May the official
Bolshevist organ printed an article asserting that Russia desired from
the Allies no help intended to drag her back into the war, but that
"Russia would appreciate in the highest degree any assistance toward
the improvement of transportation and communication facilities and
the rehabilitation of her economic life." Even the moderate press
found foreign military intervention undesirable. The Moscow Prizyv,
the official organ of the Social Revolutionaries, however, declared
editorially that "the intervention of the Allies alone can give us the
real military strength and indispensable support for thrusting back
the yoke of the German, and for reconstituting Russia." On June 11,
Boris Bakhmeteff, the Russian Ambassador at Washington, transmitted
to the State Department a resolution adopted by the Central Committee
of the Constitutional Democrats, (also known as Cadets,) the Russian
Liberal Party. The resolution pointed out that the Cadet Party did
not recognize the Brest peace, and looked to the Allies for the
amelioration of Russian conditions. The statement emphatically denied
the assertion that the Russian democracy was opposed to allied aid.
It insisted, however, that the success of the action would depend
upon "the support of national feeling in Russia." The resolution
concluded: "It is further imperative for Russian public opinion to
receive assurances that the expedition will be co-ordinated with the
inviolability of the rights and interests of Russia, and that the
actions of all the Allies on Russian territory will be performed under
international control."