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On 21 March, Rodicev addressed the Soviet with a patriotic speech, and the Executive issued a statement of support for the war and a call for unity and discipline. The sailors, who were always the most radical element, were dissatisfied with the composition of the first Soviet, and a general meeting on 6 April met their demands by ordering new elections. At the same time the meeting declared that Helsinki Soviet was the supreme Russian authority in Finland, and that all subordinate committees must conform to its general policy line.
The Finnish representation abroad was put on a more formal basis; it had rested on the individual efforts in Stockholm of Gummerus, J. Castren, and A. Fabritius, and now there was to be an officially accredited Foreign Delegation resident in Stockholm and authorized to deal with foreign powers in the name of the people of Finland. The three original representatives were joined by the politicians von Bonsdorff, Erich, and S. Sario, and two students, K. Donner and B. Appelberg. Although the activist movement was now formally united with the political parties, for even SDP could be regarded as giving tacit support, there were inter nal differences.
Paasivuori commented that this position "is certainly an easy one, but also quite impossible to realise. "11 Ideological purity struggled with political realism until the Council voted by 10 votes to nine to begin negotiations for a coalition. Even then they tried to mask what they were doing by proposing to negotiate with the bourgeois leaders as individuals, not as representatives of their parties. 12 When the Council was told on 23 March that the bourgeois would not proceed on that basis, it was thrown into utter confusion.