_Fourth_.--The Congress appeals to the democracy, while declining
responsibility for any of its acts, to support the Provisional
Government as long as it continues to consolidate and develop the
conquest of the Revolution, _and as long as the basis of its
foreign policy does not rest upon aspirations for territorial
expansion_.
_Fifth_.--The Congress calls upon the revolutionary democracy of
Russia, rallying around the Council of Workmen's and Soldiers'
Delegates, to be ready to _vigorously suppress any attempt by the
government to elude the control of democracy or to renounce the
carrying out of its pledges_.[7]
On April 27th, acting under pressure from the Soviet, the Provisional
Government published a Manifesto to the Russian people in which it
announced a foreign policy which conformed to that which the Congress of
Councils of Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates had adopted. On May 1st
Miliukov, the Foreign Minister, transmitted this Manifesto to the Allied
governments as a preliminary to an invitation to those governments to
restate their war aims. Accompanying the Manifesto was a Note of
explanation, which was interpreted by a great many of the Socialists as an
intimation to the Allies that the Manifesto was intended merely for home
consumption, and that the Provisional Government would be glad to have the
Allies disregard it.
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