The New York herald., 1921-08-28
RUSSIAN EMBASSY
IN PARIS HOPEFUL
Kerensky Delegation Hold Of
fices, Though Not Recog-
nized by France.

speoioI Cable to THE New YORK HERALD.
Con1r;oht. 1891. by THE NEW YORK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
Paris. Aug. 81.
There is a new hustle and excitement
around the official Russian Embassy IN
the rue de Grenelle here. where. despite
the claims of the Bolsheviki that tney
alone represent the Russian people.
score of attaches still profess they are
the real provisional Government or rus
sia. and prophesy that the time IS not
far distant when the Russian banner
will float over the embassy door as IN
pre-Soviet days.
There Is no Russian Ambassador mere,
the French Government having retuseu
to grant recognition to the RUSSIAN
delegation In Paris for anything save
the commercial settlements left unfin-
ished by the Kerensky regime, but there
is a strange paradox in the fact that
Russians here are compelled to get the
wise Of their consular officials pefore
leaving France either for the United
States or European countries.
Contest for the Embassy.
With NJ. Kerensky. Prince Lvoff ana
other heads of the various Russian po-
cleus here, however. it Is seen chat
there will be a struggle for the posses
sion of the richly furnished embassy
premises once Lenine and Trotzky are
ousted from Moscow.
The present occupants OF the Russian
Embassy here, who represent themselves
as merely a diplomatic corps. are mean
while unwilling to express their political
views too plainly, preferring to wait un-
til they are certain which way the pop
ular choice will fall.
The cost of keeping up the embassy
Is being met by the collection OF pass
port fees and interest on coupons which
for years have remained untouched In
the embassy Golfers.
It is reported that the occupants Of
the embassy are constantly giving anti
Bolshevist aid to similar groups in Italy,
Switzerland and even in Germany. re-
gardless of the fact that many of the
appointments date from the days Of the
Gear.
Anti-soviet Propa ganda.
BY tacit recognition Of this unexpected
weapon Of ant!-Soviet propaganda funds
have also been received from the Rus
sian Embassy In Washington. while
Englands commercial agreement with
the Bolshevik has not interferred with
her official recognition of the Russian
pre-war diplomatic corps as the only
official intermediary in affairs affecting
Russians who lived in England before
the downfall of the Cars empire.
The Russian Embassy here Is reported
to have inaugurated an elaborate police
system which covers not only the Rus
sian colonies throughout France but
which also extends into the interior OF
Russia, with the result that accurate
data are always available regarding poll
ticians who had been considered anti
Red, but who are secretly spreading Sow
let propaganda in western Europe.
Scarcely a day passes that the en-
bassy is not called on to aid refugees
who have succeeded in crossing the Pol
ish or Rumanian frontier, and, naturally.
they bring with them information of the
most valuable kind. often controverting
Soviet dispatches.
The Liquidation Of the exploits OF Gen.
wrangel Is at present providing one of
the most important tasks OF this unof-
fcial officialdom. the French Govern
ment dealing directly with the embassy
in connection with all problems, finan-
cial or social. arising out Of the Wrangel
defeat.