The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-10
COMMENDs GRoBER's SPEECH

Special commendation is due to the re-
 marks of Deputy Grober on March 2:
 .hey displayed complete comprehension of
 cur position. He said:
 Tt is admitted that we cannot describe
 this peace as a peace of understanding.
 But do not think it's acceptance should
 be made to depend entirely upon that.
 The question is not: is this a peace Of
 understanding or is 1t not7 It is a more
 practical one. Could a treaty of peace
 have been concluded in any other way
 I say i. could not and so, in the name
 of my friends, l declare that we unani-
 mously agree to the treaty.
 Gentlemen, the Russian delegation at Brest- Litovsk. under Trotskys leader ship, had obviously no serious intention of coming to an understanding about peace: it intended to institute propa ganda for it's bolshevist ideas. For this pur- pose it prolonged the negotiations as much as possible, why Trotsky even re- fused to agree to the proposed condition that we should live together in peace and friendship in the future Even that was too much for him.
 | PAINTS GERMANS AS LAMB-LIK E And while the German delegates, with amblike patience-to use no other ex- pression-strove in the sweat of their brow to push on the negotiations and bring them to conclusion We received from Russia, and from those who were in close contact with the Russian gov ernment, infiammatory speeches and wireless messages of the most violent description, which could evidently be laid only at the door of Trotsky and his col leagues, and which meant nothing but contempt of all endeavors to bring about a real, decent peace.
 "Trotsky was evidently suffering under the delusion that he would succeed in revolutionizing the other states. particu- larly Poland, Germany and England and eventually the whole world. Tn the end it was the Russian delegation, and not that of Germany, which caused the inter- ruption of the negotiations, and their final rupture, and literally forced Ger many to resume the fight. If under such circumstances when the Russian government proposed to re- sume negotiations and conclude another armistice, the German government and it's allies did not at once and uncondi- tonally agree, but put forward demands to be definitely accepted or rejected, and made the grant of an armistice and re- sumption of negotiations dependent upon their acceptance. such a step was we are convinced, thoroughly justified, and even
 necessary, and no one has the right to
 reproach the government on that ground
 GREAT QUANTITY OF STORES These expressions were a valuable help to me, and I recognized that in this matter the majority of the nation sup
 ported the government. Unfortunately. the Rechstag soon neglected the revolu-
 tionary danger which was theatening us from Russia
 In their advance our troops. the bulk
 of which were Landwehr, had in a sur
 prisingly short time reached Narva,
 Pskoff. Poiotsk Orsha and Morileff The
 Russians had made no resistance. The
 quantity of stores we captured was ex-
 traordinarily great. cThese stores and
 the artillery abandoned by the bolsheyki
 were used against the allies in the west
 in the spring and summer of 1sls.) The
 populace felt that they were delivered from bolshevisup
 The newly occupied territory was placed
 under the administration of the com
 mander -in-chef in the east We csta b. lished cordon to protect the frontier against Russia, in order to exploit the
 whole of the country economically. which
 was urgently necessary.s At the same
 time the influx of bolshevik propaganda
 into the occupied territory, and thence into Germany. had to be prevented I should then never have believed that it would ultimately make it's way into Der
 lin and Germany with government sane
 tion. and by official channels: c. II. Q.
 would in that case have seen the futility
 of its efforts and would probably have
 saved men.
 Measures were therefore put in oper-
 ation which we and the commander-in- chief of the east thought necessary for averting the bolshevik danger
 AUSTRIA TROUBLES HIM Simultaneously with our advance into bolshevik Great Russia that into the Ukraine had begun. I was in con l stant communication with General von Arg in order to arrange common action with him. All of sudden the Elm peror Charles drew back; he wanted to save his people. the disappointment of
 learning that the peace with Russia