on behalf of the Foreign Office. His 1915-08-14 cable to Zimmermann ("Helphand is an extraordinarily important man, whose unusual powers we must employ for the duration of the war, and if possible also afterwards") is the documentary keystone of the German cultivation of Parvus. Later headed the German delegation at Versailles 1919; first German ambassador to Soviet Russia 1922-1928. The operational architect of the German-Soviet rapprochement that became the Treaty of Rapallo (1922) and Tukhachevsky's secret military cooperation 1924-1933. (Claim WiU-22-024.)Parvus-HelphandGerman envoy in Copenhagen during WWI; cultivated
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