May 1917

"In Petrograd [St. Petersburg] things are growing worse daily. The tens of thousands of able-bodied men in uniform who saunter about the streets without a thought of going to the front or of working to prepare themselves for war . . . Even Lenin disclaims the idea of a separate peace [between Russia and Germany], but his agitation tends to the same end by the utter ruin it is bringing to the Russian army." (613)