New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-30

posed the secret field of Russian d.
plomacy 20 the worlds gaze, everybody
must realize that lot of formal trea'
ties and understandings have had to be
scrapped. Lenine's exposures indicate
how profoundly the situation is now
changed BY events.
Allies Secrets Out.
In the Russian archives have reposed
secret documents covering every angle
and contingency as to the attitude OF
Russia in case England declared war
on Germany. One of these included
the partitioning Of Asiatic Turkey
among Russia. France and Great
Britain in event of an Allied victory
Another document, signed year ago
bv Pohvanof. the Minister of War,
treated with the problem which would
arise in case Rumania was either de-
feated or victorious.
Events right down to the last month
have been fully covered in these docu.
ments. and il cannot be said that secret
Jiplomacy has emerged from me eN-
posures with much honor.
Unrest Growing
Another reason is that the rising
tide of radical opinion cannot De lg
nored Consider the situation IN Great
pyits;p nv far the strongest of the
European belligertrts. Her railway
men are unsettled. considerable num-
her of her airplane builders have gone
ont ON strike. the Welsh miners are
dissatisfied with conditions, the mood
of Ireland is threatening and the 1000
controller is pleading for greater
economy and protesting about the de-
noralizing effect the eXtravagant res
taurants are having on puSllc opinion
All the moderates of the natioR
are uniting in an attack upon the gov
ernment's action in censorlng leaIle's
dealing with the peace plans OF tie
Labor Party Socialists. These Socialr-
lists are considering the advlsaDlllty oI
launching an immediate campaign 41I
a conference at Stockholm. separately
none of these is 10 be calculated TO
rause any undue alarm, but collectively
tbev indicate the restlessness and dls-
.atisfaction which are spreading.
What is true in Great Britain is true
also in France and Italy. The comfort
j. that in Germany 1t Is worse.
There are many indications that
+be Italian defeat and the Russian
debacle instead of buoying the spirits
of the people of Germany and Austria,
have only increased their demands Tor
reece. If a report by the "Nosslche
ze;tnng" can be believed Of a ire
roonGo1s BUDAPEST Socialist demon
stration for peace and an armlstice'
cnd an account in "Vorwaerts" OF sun
Eav,s Socialist demonstrations IN Der
lin in which crowds cried for peace
and cheered the name Of Lie0Knecht'
the situation there is equally de-
moralized.
Russia a Big Problem
Rpssia's future is a highly important
question. If the Allies ignore tne piibs11
ent government, however lmposslDie
and impractical, they VIII De deset'i an
the moderate party. when eaM n!e "p
~ remain what the old Russian
al,reer,ents disclosed them 70 be. Mucn
as the Central Powers want the gram
tired in Odessa and much as they
desire 70 remove elsewhere the troops
st;ll in the East, and much as they
,rent to renew commercial relations
with Russia, they evidently consider
Russia more valuable for the moment
IS an enemy than as a neutral
All European neutrals are worAihg
for peace, as it is almost as great
concern Of theirs as the belligerents'
Spain is especially anxious to act as
intermediary and is giving encourage
ment to the present Russian peace
proposals, while Dutch, Danish ana
Swedish Socialists worked to bring
about the conference of Scandinavian
kings. and are comforting in the hope
Of re2ching satisfactory peace pro-
gramme.
II is not easy to suppress, peace
movements. Everything depends upon
America. Germany fears she will be
a military factor next year, and mean
while is going TO get all the peace
pawns possible. The longer the war
lasts the more moderate the peace
terms will be. Germany cannot nope
20 give a knockout blow, but she
doesn't expect to take the count