Omaha daily bee., 1917-05-21
NEW RUSS CABINET
IS NOW IN CHARGE
Premier Lvoff Explains to the
People of the United States
Reasons for Coalition
Organization.

Petrograd, May lS.-(Via London.
The formation of a cabinet in which
six socialists are included has been
completed.
After the reception into the cabinet
of socialist representatives OF the
council of deputies, Premier Prince
Lvoff received a representative Of the
Associated Press and authorized him
to transmit to America an expression
of the premier's confidence in the
future.
Statement of Premier. 4
Premier Lvof said;
"The most serious crisis in the mod
ern history of Russia has been salts
factorily settled and conditions al
ready show marked symptoms Of im-
provement. 1t is my impression that
the new coalition cabinet will receive
the support Of all reasonable Rus
sian citizens. We have for the first
time the prospect of a government
which will combine both moral au-
thority and material power.
Most of the difficulties of my first
revolutionary cabinet arose from the
fact that i'll all questions | and my
colleagues were obliged to rely solely
upon moral suasion. There was
no actual governmental power with
material force, such as you have in
America and in the other democratic
countries of the world.
After two months experiment we
discovered that moral influence was
sufficient weapon with vast ma
jority of reasonable Russian citizens
who desired tranquility, but unluckily
both in the civilian population and the
army there were individuals and
small groups who actively aimed at
anarchy and repudiated all forms Of
discipline.
Material Force Needed.
at became plain that the govern
ment could not remedy this condition
without material force and this force
could only be obtained If representa-
tives of the socialist and allied left
parties entered the government and
agreed to support it unshrinkingly in
a policy of combined freedom and or
der. II this solutionl had proven un--
reachable we were threatened with
general anarchy, followed by a ma
tional disillusion, with the revolution
and a reactionary counter revolution
ary movement as the final stage.
"This normal course of unsuccess-
full revolutions has, ], hope, been
avoided as the result of the agreement
between the temporary government
and the council of deputies. The
council has undertaken to support the
against anarchy and dis
order and further to work for the
restoring of discipline to the army,
naturally on condition, which we
granted, that the army will be de-
MY hope is that when the present
enemies Of national tranquility see
that not only the so-called bourgeois,
but also the workmen and the social
lists themselves, stand for the restora-
tion of order, they will, without COM
pAili6 no ~ tdhC dllloilt dDduuOI
their present anarchial methods,
which if continued would result in
the ruin of Russia. The program of
policies which we haye agreed upon
with our new colleagues contains
great concessions to the socialists, but
these concessions were an indispen-
sable condition of socialist collabo-
ration in the government
"ln the future democratic Russia
must not only enjoy freedom, but
must take on itself the responsibility
Of defending its freedom. Personally,
do not doubt our democracy's fit
ness for higher governmental work.
During the negotiations which led to
a settlement the representatives of
the council of deputies showed that
they thoroughly understood the dan
gers threatening Russia and were de-
termined to do everything possible to
save the country from anarchy, defeat
and dissolution"