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 Socialists should be drawn up, it is obvious that nothing could come of it so long as the German Socialists continued to support their Imperial Government, and that the latter, not having been vanquished, should maintain at least a part of its present exigencies.

On our return journey we met at Christiania a Norwegian pacifist, who had played an important part in the movement in favour of international arbitration.

He came from Vienna and Berlin. He had been interviewing Count Czernin, Zimmerman, Dernburg, and other politicians. According to him, the German rulers were, in July 1917, ready to treat on the following conditions: A simple rectification of the frontiers on the Courland side; the including of several kilometres west of Metz, France to keep the basin of the Briey; the transformation of Belgium, nominally independent, into "another Luxembourg," incorporated in the Zollverein and with Germany controlling her railways; suppression of Roumania, with Volhynia conferred on Austria and Moldavia on Russia.