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The Tsar's Rescript
ON the twenty-seventh of August of the present year the
Official Messenger of St. Petersburg contained one of the most
remarkable documents that has seen the light during the
present century. It had been handed three days before, by
order of the Tsar, to all the foreign representatives accredited
to the Court of St. Petersburg, and thus had been placed at
once in a position of prominence only accorded to diplomatic
communications of the first importance. Its contents showed
that it was even more remarkable in itself than in the circum-
stances of its origin. It contained a summary of the chief
arguments against "the excessive armaments which weigh
upon all nations," and concluded by proposing an inter-
national Conference to "put an end to these incessant arma-
ments, and to seek the means of warding off the calamities
which are threatening the whole world."
Official Messenger of St. Petersburg contained one of the most
remarkable documents that has seen the light during the
present century. It had been handed three days before, by
order of the Tsar, to all the foreign representatives accredited
to the Court of St. Petersburg, and thus had been placed at
once in a position of prominence only accorded to diplomatic
communications of the first importance. Its contents showed
that it was even more remarkable in itself than in the circum-
stances of its origin. It contained a summary of the chief
arguments against "the excessive armaments which weigh
upon all nations," and concluded by proposing an inter-
national Conference to "put an end to these incessant arma-
ments, and to seek the means of warding off the calamities
which are threatening the whole world."
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Published January 1, 1899
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