From The Making of a State by Dr. Thomas Garrigue Masaryk

I called at once on Milyukoff, whom I found on the point of resignation&3151;an unpleasant surprise. . . . In the place of the French Ambassador, M. Paléologue, who had just left Petrograd^#151;my train must have crossed his on the way—I found M. Albert Thomas, well disposed towards u, whereas Paléologue had been pro-Austrian. M. Thomas�s secretary was Pierre Comert, a good friend of Steed�s.

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London : Allen & Unwin, 1927.