Leon Trotsky: To the Peace Delegation

[From the (British) Daily Review of the Foreign Press, 5 March, 1918, p. 50. Proceedings of the Brest-Litovsk Peace Conference. Washington 1918, p. 180]

Russian Government wireless (Mar. 2) sends out the following:

To the Peace Delegation, Brest-Litovsk.

The message of Comrade Karahan asking for a train was understood by us to indicate that the opposite side has refused to conclude peace. We beg for an immediate solution of this question. The nonreceipt of a reply will be regarded by us as a confirmation of our supposition.

(Signed) Trotsky.

I beg you acknowledge this.