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"(...) The Russian representatives presented not only a perfectly definite statement of the principles upon which they would be willing to conclude peace, but also an equally definite program of the concrete application of those principles. The representatives of the Central Powers, on their part, presented an outline of settlement which, if much less definite, seemed susceptible of liberal interpretation until their specific program of practical terms was added. That program proposed no concessions at all, either to the sovereignty of Russia or to the preferences of the populations with whose fortunes it dealt, but meant, in a word, that the Central Empires were to keep every foot of territory their armed forces had occupied--every province, every city, every point of vantage as a permanent addition to their territories and their power. It is a reasonable conjecture that the general principles of settlement which they at first suggested originated with the more liberal statesmen of Germany and Austria, the men who have begun to feel the force of their own peoples' thought and purpose, while the concrete terms of actual settlement came from the military leaders who have no thought but to keep what they have got. The negotiations have been broken off. The Russian representatives were sincere and in earnest. They cannot entertain such proposals of conquest and domination. The whole incident is full of significance. It is also full of perplexity. With whom are the Russian representatives dealing? For whom are the representatives of the Central Empires speaking? Are they speaking for the majorities of their respective parliaments or for the minority parties, that military and imperialistic minority which has so far dominated their whole policy and controlled the affairs of Turkey and of the Balkan States which have felt obliged to become their associates in this war? The Russian representatives have insisted, very justly, very wisely, and in the true spirit of modern democracy, that the conferences they have been holdin(...)".

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This volume was published in 1922.Book excerpts:Everything in this intimate room of Mrs. Ranger's was old and faintly tarnished. In her day she had been a beauty, Southern as her name, Mary Louise Beauchamp Carter poor as poverty with generations of wealth behind her born to a leaking family roof- tree, old family silver, old family pictures, old family servants, the latter dwindling in number until none remained. Her mother had pinned her last hope to Mary Lou ; but before the rash girl was twenty she had lost her head over a rising young nobody at all, Loring Ran- ger, with less background than a chipmunk and no particularly substantial foreground, and had recklessly married him. Mrs. Carter shed tears steadily, and only abandoned them for equally steady smiles when she realized the genius of her son-in-law for making money hand over hand lucky hands that turned everything they touched into gold. Then, completely reconciled, she gave them her blessing, bestowed upon them the family heirlooms and departed this life in peace. ............................................................................................Hardly had he passed out and gone his way before the door opened again, and Kelsey strolled in. Mor- ton's sanctum, a small cluttered office at the rear of the building, was not an especially inviting retreat, but Kelsey had fallen into the way of drifting in there almost every evening. There was no other companionship for either of them ; for Morton was an odd, mousy, little man who left the hospital but rarely even when off duty. He was a night-hawk, sitting up until all hours, and Kelsey often wondered when he slept. With a taste for long discussions, usually on some scientific subject, he would go on interminably, sometimes until the dawn showed at the windows; and only too glad to have a listener, he winked at the infraction of the rule which required a patient to be in his room by nine o'clock.

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