The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . ly submit to the dismem-berment of Russia. But Ger-many now held, and proposedto keep, Courland, Esthonia,Livonia, and Poland, and it Mason her program to include Fin-land also, in a Middle Europeansystem dominated by her andextending from the Baltic tothe Adriatic, if not to the Per-sian Gulf. The Leninites wereready for the time to indulge her to the extent of grantinga three months armistice for the purpose of discussion, butdid not see as others saw
The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . ly submit to the dismem-berment of Russia. But Ger-many now held, and proposedto keep, Courland, Esthonia,Livonia, and Poland, and it Mason her program to include Fin-land also, in a Middle Europeansystem dominated by her andextending from the Baltic tothe Adriatic, if not to the Per-sian Gulf. The Leninites wereready for the time to indulge her to the extent of grantinga three months armistice for the purpose of discussion, butdid not see as others saw that in that interval Germanywould quietly and by force make more secure her graspon Russian territory. In such conditions, Russia, as anactive element in the war, promised to be a negligible factorat least for months to come, and perhaps to the end of thewar. From Berlin, on December 5, came news that an armisticeof ten days had been arranged and that it extended over theentire Russian front. When the Germans were asked if theywould agree to leave their armies intact on the EasternFront for the time being, their answer was reported as. Nicholas Lenine 324 GERMANYS BIDS FOR PEACE evasive; they said tliey were there to arrange an armisticewith Russia, and for no other purpose; moreover, it was notfor tliem to decide what should be done with the Germanarmies. Armies were sent where there was work for themto do. This Bolsheviki proposal, if it was seriously meant,added a comic opera touch to the extravaganza plt^yed solong on the boards of Petrograd. Leniae and Trotzky .shouldhave known, and probably did know, that the Germans werepreparing to take their armiesfrom the Eastern Front; infact, that they had alreadytaken great masses away. Someof these troops might, in fact,have been in action against theBritish at Cambrai weeks be-fore. On reinforcements fromthe Russian front the Germanshad placed hopes for a lastchance in the war-game beforean American army was inaction in the wes
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