Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 130, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1917 — BUMS RUSH FOR PEACE OFFER [ARTICLE]

BUMS RUSH FOR PEACE OFFER

Swiss Socialist With Separate Peace Proposal For Ruas From Teuton*, Ousted. The first act of the Pan-Russian congress of all council of workmen’s and soldiers’ delegates, Upon which depends the immediate destiny of Russia in regard to both international and domestic questions, was to ratify the expulsion by the provisional government of the Swiss socialist, Robert Grimm, who is reported to have been the medium through which the Germans attempted to arrange a separate peace with Russia. Grimm’s case was taken up when the congress assembled immediately after the delegates had elected the president, N. C. Tcheidise, president of the Petrograd council of workmen’s and soldiers’ delegates. Grimm’s expulsion was approved by the passage with a vote of 640 to 121 of a resolution endorsing the action socialist members of the cabinet, who < investigated the activities of the Swiss socialist and brought about the order for expulsion. The congress expressed the view tthat the action of the ministers corresponded perfectly with the interests of the Russian revolution and the socialist internationale. It welcomed the decision of the ministers to publish the full details concerning the Grimm affair.