Matters seemed to be clearing up, though this is not yet altogether done.

Apart from deciding on our tactics for Brest, we have at last to set down _in writing_ that we are only obliged to fight for the pre-war possessions of Germany.

Ludendorff was violently opposed to this, and said, 'If Germany makes peace without profit, then Germany has lost the war.' "The controversy was growing more and more heated, when Hertling nudged me and whispered: 'Leave him alone, we two will manage it together without him.' "I am now going to work out the draft at once and send it in to Hertling.
"Supper this evening at Hoehenlohe.
"_February 6, 1918._--Arrived Brest this evening.

Wiesner has been at it untiringly and done excellent work; the situation, too, is easier now.

The leader of the Austrian Ruthenians, Nikolay Wassilko, arrived yesterday, and albeit evidently excited by the part his Russian-Ukrainian comrades are playing at Brest, speaks nationally, far more chauvinistically than when I thought I knew him in Vienna, and we have at last agreed on the minimum of the Ukrainian demands.