Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-02-17 | Page 2 | Germany Placed in Predicament by Leon Trotzky

GERMANY PLACED IN PREDICAMENT BY LEON TROTZKY WASHINGTON, Ffb. IS. Official W;i shing ton's opinion of Bolshevik Foreign For-eign Minister Trotzky 's decision for no war and st ill no pnce wit h Germany is that Trotzky, whether knowing it or not, lias placed Germany In a military and diplomatic predicament. Movements of German troops from the Russian front have Ik-p n stopped and It is believed by military nifti In re that no further withdrawal of forces can be made until Berlin decides on a policy toward to-ward the Bolshoviki. Such ofiiciaj reports re-ports as ha ve been received do not say cl early whether the demohil iza tion of Russian troops has hwn continued, but th-y do Indicate a reorganization of the Red Guard. Germany by repudiating the no-nn-nr-xatiou policy, officials here think, has widened the breach with the KoH alibis who cry frr peace. They a '.ho think Ger- many will be forced to so to the nid of the Ukrainians if the JBolshevIki attack them.