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In the World War

CHAPTER X
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24,973,443 kg.
Various foodstuffs 27,385,095 " 7,836,287 " -- ----------- -- ----------- 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..


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