very slow pace they dragged on until I left office.

Afterwards the Emperor went with Burian to the German Headquarters.
Following that, the Salzburg negotiations were proceeded with and,
apparently, at greater speed.

CHAPTER X

BREST-LITOVSK

1

In the summer of 1917 we received information which seemed to suggest
a likelihood of realising the contemplated peace with Russia. A report
dated June 13, 1917, which came to me from a neutral country, ran as
follows:

The Russian Press, bourgeois and socialistic, reveals the
following state of affairs:

At the front and at home bitter differences of opinion are rife as
to the offensive against the Central Powers demanded by the Allies
and now also energetically advocated by Kerenski in speeches
throughout the country. The Bolsheviks, as also the Socialists
under the leadership of Lenin, with their Press, are taking a
definite stand against any such offensive. But a great part of the
Mensheviks as well, _i.e._ Tscheidse's party, to which the present
Ministers Tseretelli and Skobeleff belong, is likewise opposed to
the offensive, and the lack of unanimity on this question is
threatening the unity of the party, which has only been maintained
with difficulty up to now. A section of the Mensheviks, styled
Internationalists from their trying to re-establish the old
_Internationale_, also called _Zimmerwalder_ or _Kienthaler_, and
led by Trotski, or, more properly, Bronstein, who has returned
from America, with Larin, Martow, Martynoz, etc., returned from
Switzerland, are on this point, as with regard to the entry of
Menshevik Social Democrats into the Provisional Government,
decidedly opposed to the majority of the party. And for this
reason Leo Deutsch, one of the founders of the Marxian Social
Democracy, has publicly withdrawn from the party, as being too
little patriotic for his views and not insisting on final victory.
He is, with Georgei Plechanow, one of the chief supporters of the
Russian "Social Patriots," which group is termed, after their
Press organ, the "Echinstvo" group, but is of no importance either
as regards numbers or influence. Thus it comes about that the
official organ of the Mensheviks, the _Rabocaja Gazeta_, is
forced to take up an intermediate position, and publishes, for
instance, frequent articles against the offensive.

There is then the Social Revolutionary party, represen