We must now wait to see what to-morrow brings: either a victory or the final termination of the negotiations.
"Adler said to me in Vienna: 'You will certainly get on all right with Trotski,' and when I asked him why he thought so, he answered: 'Well, you and I get on quite well together, you know.' "I think, after all, the clever old man failed to appreciate the situation there.

These Bolsheviks have no longer anything in common with Adler; they are brutal tyrants, autocrats of the worst kind, a disgrace to the name of freedom.
"Trotski is undoubtedly an interesting, clever fellow, and a very dangerous adversary.

He is quite exceptionally gifted as a speaker, with a swiftness and adroitness in retort which I have rarely seen, and has, moreover, all the insolent boldness of his race.
"_January 10, 1918._--The sitting has just taken place.

Trotski made a great and, in its way, really fine speech, calculated for the whole of Europe, in which he gave way entirely.

He accepts, he says, the German-Austria 'ultimatum,' and will remain in Brest-Litovsk, as he will not give us the satisfaction of being able to blame Russia for the continuance of the war.
"Following on Trotski's speech, the Committee was at once formed to deal with the difficult questions of territory.