M. Jean Herbette, accompanied by Mme. Herbette and an embassy staff, left Paris for Moscow to take up his duties as first French Ambassador to Bolshevik Russia, successor to the last French Ambassador to Imperial Russia, M. Maurice Paléologue.
At the Gare de l'Est, the Bolshevik Ambassador and his wife, M. and Mme. Leonid Krassin, bade the party bon voyage and bon chance.
It was reported that the French Ambassador had been instructed by Premier Herriot to impress upon the Bolshevik Government the necessity of paying its Imperial debt to France. Hostile wags in Paris...
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