I am persuaded, however, that Tschirsky, in behaving as he did, widely overstretched his prescribed sphere of activity.

Iswolsky was not the only one of his kind.

I conclude this to be so, since Tschirsky, as intimated in a former dispatch, was never in a position to make an official declaration urging for war, but appears only to have spoken after the manner of diplomatic representatives when anxious to adapt the policy of their Government to their own point of view.

Undoubtedly Tschirsky transmitted his instructions correctly and loyally, nor did he keep back or secrete anything.

An ambassador attains more or less according to the energy expended by him in carrying out the instructions of his Government; and the private opinion of the ambassador is, under certain circumstances, not easy to distinguish from his official one.