The new government's foremost task was to exercise a calming influence on the bourgeois which was worried, in anticipation of May 1, 1917, by rumours that the February Revolution in Russia would spread to Sweden.
A principal tarefa do novo goberno foi exercer unha influencia tranquilizadora sobre a burguesía, que estaba inqueda, nos días anteriores ao 1 de maio de 1917, polos rumores de que a revolución de febreiro dese ano en Rusia podería estenderse a Estocolmo.