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Title: The Independent
Year: 1849 (1840s)
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Publisher: New York : S.W. Benedict
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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hbound Russia to her allies. The Minister of Foreign Affairsin the Provisional Government, Dr. Milukov, insisted thatthese constituted permanent engagements of the country re-gardless of the change of government and that it would bedishonorable to repudiate or to reveal them. But the So-cialists of the Council recognized no obligation to carry outthe promises made by the old regime. They wished to start with a clean slate and demanded that the secret treaties berepudiated or published, and that Russia work for worldpeace on the basis of no indemnities and no annexations.Obviously the Russian Government could not make publicthe treaties without fatally offending the Allied Powers, forit would disclose their diplomatic history for years backand their future plans for the conquest of the CentralPowers. So a compromise was arranged. Milukov resigned,six Socialists from the Council were taken into the Cabinetand the Government as thus reconstituted undertook to CARTOON COMMENT COME ACROSS!
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June 9, 1917 THE INDEPENDENT 451 negotiate new treaties without publishing the old ones.What the old treaties are and what it was in them thatthe Socialists objected to can only be surmised, but it iseasy to see why their threatened publication caused anxietyin every European chancellery. They form doubtless thebasis of the Entente Alliance out of which grew the coali-tion against Germany and they must cover such delicatequestions as the partition of Persia between Great Britainand Russia (August 31, 1907), the loans made by Franceto Russia shortly before the war for the construction ofmilitary railroads leading to the German frontier, the con-ditions and extent of the aid which France and Russia wereto render to one another in case of a war with Germany,the agreement of the Allies at the Paris Conference of 1915as to the restriction of German commerce after the war,the conditions under which Russia was to get Constanti-nople, the plans for the partition of Austria-Hungary andTurkey,

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