marlinguy wrote on Aug 22^nd, 2018 at 10:54am:


A short time later, but not at the time of this Congressional hearing, which took place Dec. 12-17, 1917; 1918 is actually the date the report was published.  So at the time of the hearing, Russia (even under the Bolshevik gov't.) was still an ally, still "in the war" technically, the treaty that ended their participation not being signed until March 3, 1918. The murder of the Czar took place later in 1918.  If this were not true, the reference to a fear of "demoralizing" the Russian gov't would not have made sense.