File No. 763.72119/533
The Minister in Denmark ( Egan) to the Secretary of State
[Received April 3, 8 a.m.]
538. Vorwärts writes:
An official German Socialist has sent a telegram to Minister Stauncing, Danish Socialist leader at Copenhagen, with the request that it be forwarded to Cheidze and the Duma. Substance is as follows:
The Russian Socialists at Copenhagen have sent us a note dealing with, the question of peace and requesting us to defeat any tendency in Germany towards interfering with the development of the Russian revolution. The German Socialists are fully complying with this request. During the late discussion in the Reichstag on the subject the Socialists, the Government, and all other parties expressed a strong disapproval of interfering with Russia’s internal policy.
The German Socialists congratulate the Russian proletariat on the results obtained in the cause of political liberty. The German Socialists express the wish that the political progress of the Russian people will contribute towards reestablishing peace for which the German Socialists have been fighting since the beginning of the war.
Ebert
By this note the German peace proposal of December 12, 1916, is amended so that it is not demanded that the enemy should cease hostilities during the discussion for peace.