A number of Deputies criticized the inefficiency of the Foreign Office, and one speaker, in demand ing the names of some Russian re presentatives abroad, asserted tha' for the most part they were Germans. The statement caused some sensation, and one deputy cried: "We have had enough of these dorts' and bergs'.""
Another interesting point in the Foreign Minister's speech was his reference to the relations of Rus sia with Sweden, his statement being, to the great satisfaction of the Deputies, that those relations were now more friendly than ever before, as was manifested particul arly in the ce-operative agreement between the Russian and Swedish railways for the transportation of merchandise.
There had been a period, said Sassanoff, when these good rela-
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