Word: russian
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...peace proposals offered by the Central Executive Committee of the Russian Council of Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates are more suggestive than actually important. They are an attempt on the part of the representaties of the peasant and industrial classes of all Russia to make a real interpretation of the general policy of no annexations and indemnities declared when the Miliukof government was forced out last April...
...proposals themselves contain many admirable and some doubtful provisions. But whatever might be the effect of their actual adoption, they are exceedingly interesting as the sincere and earnest attempt on the part of the Russian people to solve the vexing questions which must come up sooner or later. It is for this reason that they deserve the serious consideration of the allies who would do well to make a similar trial at least in the solution of those problems which are not the less important because they are difficult or because they are seemingly subordinate to the questions...
...hard to tell which of these aspects is the more important. The military defeat of Germany would destroy the militarism of the imperialists. On the other hand, a re-assertion on the part of all the allies of the principles of President Wilson and the new Russian democracy, as well as their actual interpretation, would split the democratic from the imperialistic elements in Germany. Such a movement would accomplish our armies in the war no less than military success. The United States does not have to go through three years of war to find out that it is fighting...
...determined. The apportionment of the world's available tonnage, so that Italy may get her raw materials and France her food and coal, will have to be settled. But the conference will do much more than this. Pressing diplomatic and political problems demand immediate settlement and mutual understanding. The Russian project of an allied declaration affirming the Russian resolutions concerning the independence of Poland, the Balkan problem, and China is one of the most important...
...October 30 at 8.30 o'clock by two of its members. On Friday evening, Dr. Benjamin Rand '79, will give a talk on "Within the War Zone." Dr. Rand is the librarian of the Philosophical Library. On Tuesday, October 30, Dr. Robert H. Lord '60, will talk on "The Russian Situation and Impressions of the Revolution." Dr. Lord has just returned from a two months' stay in Russia...