Trotsky stated last week that all Russia's secret treaties would
be published. " We sweep all secret treaties Into the dustbin," he said. " If the pressure we exert on Western Europe is insufficient, we will increase it," in order to secure a " peace of brotherly union." The documents printed in the Anarchist papers, which may or may not be authentic, include a scheme dating from the spring of 1910 for the partition of Asiatic Turkey, excluding Anatolia, between Russia, Great Britain, and France, and telegrams giving Russia's consent to the formation of a buffer-State on the left bank of the Rhine between France and Germany, on condition that Russia was left free to deal with Poland. Another document, dated 1909, is a suggestion from a Russian official for a Russo-German Treaty virtually nullifying the Russo-British Agreement of 1907. Secret treachery of that kind on the part of the ex-Times servants was. on the whole, worse than the open a1sobief-maktng of Lenin and his crew.
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