The Cordova daily times., 1923-03-15
AMBASSADOR FOR KERENSKY
 STILL IN PARIS
Envoy in Embassy Five Years After the
 Regimes Demise HE AIDS RUSSIAN EXILES Maklakoff Never Had a Chance to Present
 Credentials

PARIS, March 15 - An embassy that is not an embassy and an am- bassador who is no an ambassador! That's the situation in a mammoth house at No. 79 Rue de Grenelle here, embassy of the provisional Rus sian Government, the Government of | Kerensky, non-existent for the last ! five years. There presides M. Max | lakoff, the unfortunate.
 It was in October, 1917, that Mak- lakoff left Petrograd, a trusted Ker- ensky lieutenant, carrying credentials as Ambassador of the Russian Gov ernment to France. The trip thru 1 war-ravaged regions required two weeks. He arrived on November 7, one day after the fall of the Ker- ensky Government.
 Credentials Useless | Under the odd circumstance of no longer having any government to represent, Makaloff took over the Embassy. He never was able to | present his credentials to the French Government, for they were obsolete. And for more than five years he has 1 held forth in the Embassy that is really no longer an Embassy, doing what he can in private way for Rus sian exiles who sought refuge in lyi i,,n1 the upper hand in their own country. l Precisely at o'clock every after noon the ponderous street gates of the old house are thrown open. At odd intervals during the rest of the daylight hours all sorts of persons wend their way across the graveled court to the main doors. There are no diplomats among them, however. They are mostly Russian eXiles seek ing help and information.
 Three in Embassy
 Inside the Embassy" there appear to be only three persOns-the door man, who is almost too eager to be agreeable and whose heavy shoes squeak loudly as he conducts the visitor to the Ambassador" through narrow halls and up narrow winding stairways; a pretty Russian girl sec retary, who exercises jurisdiction in room just outside the "Ambassa- dor's" private office, and the Am bassador" himself.
 The Ambassadors" position is not agreeable, and he admits it.
 "T have no government to repre- sent, and there is no government to pay me-" he says. we do the best we can on private contributions"
 Makaloff entrusted his situation here with that of Boris Bakmetief, former Ambassador of the provisional Russian Government to the United States.
 l Bakmetieff Pared Better
 "Bakmetief presented his creden- tials and was regular Ambassador" Maklakoff said. "And he lasted al most five years longer than his Gov ernment. I have done better, but how much longer I shall be in this position I don't know. All my re- lations with the French Government are personal and private, and I don't think there will be any interference"
 In a far corner of the Embassy" the Russian consul-general, also rep resenting the defunct Kerensky gov ernment, has his office. Daily he is visited by scores of persons wanting help, chiefly in obtaining passports.
 The consulgeneral cannot issue a passport, neither can he wise a passport, but he can certify to the French Government, under a League of Nations ruling, can grant to the Russian a passport to traverse any European country with the eXcep- tion of Russia, Poland and Germany.
 Thus do the Russian exiles "carry on" in Paris, still nursing the faint hope that the revolutionists, as they call themselves, may some time in the future again be in power in Petrograd