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...outbreak of the World War he was a Commander on the Wilmington. The following year he was assigned to duty at the Naval Academy, which post he left in 1918 to become District Commander at Brest, France. Later the same year he was sent as a U. S. representative to the Prisoner of War Conference at Berne, Switzerland...
...stirring the people up to the point of seizing the power in November 1917, and in arresting all members of the Kerensky government except Kerensky himself. He was forced to leave Russia, and Lenin took over the reins of government. Soon after the new regime concluded the Peace of Brest-Litavsk...
...Peace was concluded with Germany at Brest-Litovsk and ratified by the Congress of "People's Committees" on such unfavorable terms that the dissenting "Lesser Group" or Mensheviki withdrew in protest from the Congress, henceforth Bolshevik...
...Britain made her trade agreement with Russia in March. Republican Germany denounced the treaty of Brest-Litovsk and made a more just peace with Russia in May. Other powers followed suit...
...Russia did at Brest-Litovsk, America has made a separate peace with Germany without even the slightest suggestion of an adjustment with her comrades in arms. That was the blood truce with the common enemy. Today, a money peace between the allied and associated powers is being devised...