"Early in 1918, for the Allied forces, it looked dark. The Germans were

able to neglect the crumbled-in Eastern Front and concentrate a tornado

drive on the Western Front. It was at last realized that the controlling

Bolshevik faction in Russia was bent on preventing the resumption of the

war on the Eastern Front and possibly might play its feeble remnants of

military forces on the side of the Germans. The Allied Supreme Council

at Versailles decided that the other allies must go to the aid of their

old ally Russia who had done such great service in the earlier years of

the war. On the Russian war front Germany must be made again to feel

pressure of arms. Organization of that front would have to be made by

efforts of the Allied Supreme War Council."

The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia