27 head
(31,625,172 kg.) (13,165,725 kg.)
Salted meat 2,927,439 " 1,571,569 "
Eggs 75,200 boxes 32,433 boxes
Sugar 66,809,969 kg. 24,973,443 kg.
Various foodstuffs 27,385,095 " 7,836,287 "
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Total 172,349,556 " 61,528,220 "
and 75,200 boxes and 32,433 boxes
eggs eggs
(Total, 30,757 wagons) (Total, 13,037 wagons)

The goods imported under II. represent a value of roughly 450
_million kronen_.

The quantities _smuggled_ unofficially into the states concerned
are estimated at about 15,000 wagons (about half the official
imports).

So ended this phase, a phase which seemed important while we were
living through it, but which was yet nothing but a phase of no great
importance after all, since it produced no lasting effect.

The waves of war have passed over the Peace of Brest-Litovsk, washing
it away as completely as a castle of sand on the shore is destroyed by
the incoming tide.

Long after I was reproached by the Polish element in the Herrenhaus,
who asserted that I had proved my incapability by my own confession
that the Peace of Brest had not withstood the test of subsequent
events. But should I have shown more capability by asserting, after
the collapse of the Central Powers, that the peace still existed?

The term "bread peace" (_Brotfrieden_) was not coined by me, but by
Burgemeister Weisskirchner on the occasion of my reception by the
Gemeinderat of Vienna at the Nordbahnhof. The millions whose lives
were saved by those 42,000 wagon-loads of food may repeat the words
without a sneer.

CHAPTER XI

THE PEACE OF BUCHAREST

At Brest-Litovsk rumours had already spread that Roumania did not
intend to continue the war. These rumours assumed a very definite
character after peace was concluded with the Ukraine. That peace, as
well as Trotski's attitude, left no doubt in Bucharest that Roumania
could no longer reckon on further co-operation on the part of Russia
and gave rise to the idea in some circles that she would turn back. I
say in _some_ circles, for there was one group whi