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A party of Russian radicals who ar- rived at Stockholm from Switzerland on April 13 were said to be planning a peace congress in Stockholm, and to have won the support of German radicals and some French Socialists. Lenin, a prominent Russian Socialist, who had lived in Swit- zerland, was their leader. The fact that tneir mission was synchronous with the German Socialist majority leader Scheide- manns alleged departure for Stockholm to meet envoys of the Russian Govern- ment, and that the Russian radicals were permitted to pass through Germany from Switzerland, was taken to mean that the plan had the backing of the German Government. In its policy toward dependent nation- alities the new Government announced that Poland was to receive complete inde- pendence with the right to determine its own form of government and its relation, if any, to Russia. The Polish Deputies thereupon surrendered their seats in the Duma. prev next |