ABSTRACT

The Emperor Charles of Austria had sent a highly-placed personage to France with a direct offer for a separate peace with the Allies, according to unofficial information passed on by Lloyd George. Perhaps moved by protests from Allied governments against these Soviet attitudes, Paul N. Milyukov, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, responded with an interview on March 23 (April 5) which discussed Allied peace aims. Dutch-Scandinavian committee planned to convene in Stockholm a conference of socialists from all the belligerent countries, with the object of evolving a peace program acceptable to all. The British declaration effectively killed the conference and put an end to the attempts by the Russian socialists to exert pressure for peace through the labor movements of the belligerent countries. And the failure in the spring and early summer of 1917, to bring closer a negotiated peace had an immense effect on the future course of the February revolution.