ABSTRACT
The German ultimatum is attempting to muzzle the Russian Revolution by forbidding all agitation directed against the Governments of the Quadruple Alliance and their military authorities. The negotiations at Brest-Litovsk opened on December 3rd. On December 22nd Baron von Khlmann, German secretary of state for foreign affairs, Count Czernin, Austro-Hungarian minister of foreign affairs, M. Popoff, Bulgarian minister of justice, with numerous staffs, arrived at Brest-Litovsk. The German and Austrian diplomatists cared nothing for publicity, and the dread that the Entente Powers might in some manner interfere led them to insist that the sessions be resumed at Brest-Litovsk. On January 8th the Germans announced from Berlin that the negotiations with Soviet Russia had been 'temporarily broken off'. On January 5th the representatives of the Quadruple Alliance had returned to Brest-Litovsk and had telegraphed inviting the Soviet representatives to come there. They arrived two days later, to the great relief of the Germans.
