The reality of its policy was entirely contrary. On 22 July 1918, the British Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, told the War Cabinet that it was “ ‘none of Britain’s business what sort of government the Russians set up: a republic, a Bolshevik state or a monarchy.’ The indications are that President Wilson shared this view.”52 It was a view that the French for a time shared also; until April, the dominant party in the French General Staff opposed offering support to the anti-Bolsheviks, the “so-called patriotic groups,” on the grounds that they favoured the German forces of occupation for
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