treaty abrogated on her part and no more in effect between Turkey and Russia.[1]
We correctly fulfilled our obligations towards Germany which followed from the agreements of August 27th, and the first payments in gold were made by us at the required times. The German troops, on their part, were gradually evacuating White Russia. Commissions were at work on the transfer to us of the evacuated districts and on the settling of the boundaries of Esthonía and Livonia. The questions which had caused conflict formerly, seemed more amenable to adjustment, but every day showed an ever stronger baiting of the Bolsheviki in the German press. The German Government began to shower upon us complaints of our alleged violation of paragraph 2 of the Brest Treaty, which prohibited either government from carrying on an agitation against the institutions of the other side. On September 2, Hauschild addressed to us the well known note concerning the "inflammatory articles" of the Russian press, and on September 13 he presented an even more caustic note concerning the agitation which we were alleged to have been carrying on against the existing order in Germany. At this time took place the first concerted diplomatic step of both imperialistic coalitions against the proletarian revolution. When on September 3 all the local foreign representatives at Petrograd visited Comrade Zinovieff to protest against the "red terror", which protest was officially confirmed in the note of the Swiss representative, Odier, of September 5, the German Consul General Bretter participated together with other representatives in this demonstrative protest.[2] But the days of German imperialism were drawing to a close. At the end of Sep-
- ↑ The full text of this Soviet Government note of September 20, 1918, will be found in The Class Struggle (New York), Vol. II, pp. 637–640 (December, 1918), with other data on the negotiations conducted in this matter with the Turkish and German governments.
- ↑ The able answer of Chicherin, People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs, will be found in English translation in The Liberator, New York, December, 1918.
