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Show ALLIES OF ARE EAGER FOR PEACE J .-Delegates of the Kaiser r to Brest-Litovsk Conference, Con-ference, However, Assume As-sume Domineering Attitude At-titude From the Start, Placing Their Country ; in Position of Con-queror. Con-queror. RECOGNITION OF THE BOLSHEVIKI Entente Governments Try to Take Advantage Advan-tage of the Rupture of Negotiations on the Eastern Front; Matter Now Being Discussed in Washington. PETEOGRAJJ, Thursday, Jan. 3. Disclosure of details of the Brest-Lit- u ovsk peace negotiations makes it clear that Germany assumed a domineering attitude, while Austria, Bulgaria and Turkey were very conciliator)' and disagreed dis-agreed with the German position. There were differences also' among (he German delegates during the general t - meeting, foreign Minister Kuehlmann and General Hoffmann clashing openly. Germany posod constantly as a conqueror, con-queror, while her three allies showed eagcrnes for peace and a disposition to compromise. A statement issued by the Bolsheviki emphasizes the fact that the enemy delegations del-egations now in Petrograd have no diplomatic, dip-lomatic, standing and are here merely to arrange details growing out of the armistice, such as the exchange of pris oners and the resumption of postal service. serv-ice. The work of the commission which is dealing with prisoners is proceeding slowly. The Kussian delegates claimed the right to send any publications they desired to Kussian prisoners in Germany and to Specialists in the central empire. They also demanded unrestricted direct telegraphic communication with representatives repre-sentatives of the Socialist parties in the enemy countries. Tlio German delegates replied they were unauthorized to make an agreement on this point. The Russians demanded the creation of a special commission to inouire into the deportation of Polish workmen for employment in privately owned fnc- tones in Germany. To this demand the Germans responded thev had not been - authorized to take up the question. The Russians thereupon asked for further V instructions from the council of people's peo-ple's commissioners. RECOGNITION NOT YET CONSIDERED BY UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. Jan. 4. State department depart-ment officials) say that, there have been mi negotiations on the subject of reoog-niti"n reoog-niti"n nf the Bolsheviki government up to this point. CI ope attention. however, is being uiven to the uuestion of the status of the Bolsheviki regime hiiiI from private statements of officials it is gather! that a derision will bo reached verv soon as an outcome of the meeting of the constituent consti-tuent assembly in Tetrograd. If that body appears to be representative of the will of the Russian people, and gives promise of being able to maintain a real uoverument willing to respect lnterna-ilnnal lnterna-ilnnal obligations, the chances of the recognition re-cognition will be excellent. This probably would at first take the form of a de facto recognition, which might easily mid naturally resolve itself it-self into a recognition of t he Bolsheviki government as de jure, providing In the meantime I y nine a mi Trotzkv did not submit to impossible peace conditions in their negotiations with Germany. RECOGNITION OF BOLSHEVIKI MAY TAKE PLACE SOON LONDON', .lan. (. Recogrdt ion of th Lent nc gov eminent, in Russia by the entente allies is probahle, owing to t he developments in the Kissn-German negotiations, nego-tiations, according to the Daily chronicle. The statement apparently is based on a cont ribution "by a diplomatic correspondent." corre-spondent." which is printed beneath it. The writer says that owing to the Pol- siieviki discovery of German duplicity any tiling may happen. "There are." he says, "three alterna- 'y (Continued ou Page Pour.) MIES OP THE ram to SECURE. PEACE German Delegates to Brest-Litovsk, Brest-Litovsk, Hovever, Assume Domineering Attitude From the Start. (Continued from Page One.) tives: The Bolshevik! may give way, the Germans may give way or there will be a rupture of relations. The first is hardly likely, in view of Foreign Minister Min-ister Trotzky's decln ration. The second is possible, for the Germans are past masters mas-ters in the art of specious compromise. But the third la most probable, since the Bolshevik i have exhibited a perspicacity which waa hardly expected in this country. coun-try. "Russia, the land of boundless surprises, sur-prises, may ciulte possibly witness a revival re-vival of the war, if not In the most active form it might at least be a sullenly defensive de-fensive war, necessitating the keeping on the frontier of a considerable German force. It would at least prevent those pleasant and profitable commercial exchanges ex-changes which Germany hopes for. "Assuming such a situation and the consolidation of Bolshevik! power, pro- j vided failure to extract a peace does not 1 wreck the Lenine regime, then recognition recogni-tion of that power as the de facto government gov-ernment follows. Since that is so, a Socialist So-cialist would 'be the logical representa-, representa-, live of that government and Maxim TJtvinoff, who has been appointed, is a ! likely enough occupant of the embassy," Referring to the retirement of lr George "VV. Buchanan, the British ambassador am-bassador to Russia, whose services are praised highly, the writer says: "In his place probably would be sent a diplomat in marked sympathy with the ideas of Russia. "Be that as it may, we may expect shortly some statement of policy with regard re-gard to Russia, which, should it lean toward the latest developments and democracy, dem-ocracy, would undoubtedly strengthen the allied cause in Russia." |