Note 1113 — Chapter XVII
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According to Bompard, the Russian government was not certain that the Liberal government in London would support France as whole-heartedly as its predecessor had done. Grey’s assertions early in February reassured it entirely (Spring Rice to Knollys, Jan. 31, 1906, and Spring Rice to Grey, Feb. 16, 1906, Gwynn, The Letters and Friendships of Sir Cecil Spring Rice, II, 62 ff.; Spring Rice to Grey, Feb. 7 and 8, 1906, B.D., III, 245 f., Nos. 272 f.; Grey to Spring Rice, Feb. 8, 1906, ibid., 246, No. 274).