File No. 861.00/999
The Ambassador in Great Britain (Page) to the Secretary of State
[Received January 25, 2.34 a.m.]
8388. Your 6313, January 21, 7 p.m.1 Mr. Balfour informed as instructed. He intimated that as things are at the moment he agreed with your position but events may at any time create a different situation. I discover a growing conviction that the Bolshevik regime will soon end and that southern Russia will come forward as the real Russia but no British diplomatic change in attitude to Russia has taken place. The British Ambassador has arrived from Petrograd. I am to see him to-morrow and will report if I learn anything worth while.