The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . ain commit-tee of the Reichstag. Russia had been swept offher feet by a home demand forpeace, which was partly ideal-istic, partly inspired by war-fatigue. A transport of peaceenthusiasm had reached itshighest wave when Germanyoffered what seemed to Russiaa democratic peace. But afterRussia saw what Germanysreal purpose was, six hiandred delegates in Petrograd gaveto a war-speech by Trotzky before the Soviets enthusiasticand convincing applause. No war
The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . ain commit-tee of the Reichstag. Russia had been swept offher feet by a home demand forpeace, which was partly ideal-istic, partly inspired by war-fatigue. A transport of peaceenthusiasm had reached itshighest wave when Germanyoffered what seemed to Russiaa democratic peace. But afterRussia saw what Germanysreal purpose was, six hiandred delegates in Petrograd gaveto a war-speech by Trotzky before the Soviets enthusiasticand convincing applause. No war speech by Kerensky had€ver won applause so earnest. The scene attained its mostinspiring height when a Baltic delegate cried: The Balticflag will be the last to come down. Fourteen of the fifteenRussian armies at the front were represented at this meet-ing. Of these thirteen reported that the soldiers were readyto return to the front. News of this attitude made startlingreading in Berlin. Demoralized and exhausted Russia wasapparently holding at bay the arrogant Germans. It seemedfor a time as if the Russians had become conquerors who. ) PRESS tLLUSTRATIHG SERVICE ; CZEIIXIX. THE AUSTRIANl^OEEIGN MiXISTEE 333 ON THE WESTERN FRONT were imposing terms upon a vanquished empire, or thatGerman diplomacy once more had blundered. Germany hadmade a fair-sounding offer of peace, but with secret inten-tion of annexing Courland and Lithuania, and marking offPoland as future prey. It was a pretty scheme, but un-tutored men in Petrograd had detected it. German im-perialism had been unmasked, they were saying. All theirtalk now was of breaking off the parley and fighting des-perately against Germany until she was ready to consent toa truly democratic peace. With all her blunders Russia had placed a finger on thesore spot in Germanys position. The Kaiser and the mili-tary party had been in desperate need of having somethinglike plunder to dangle before the eyeS: of their people, forif
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