Ever since the government of workmen and peasants took the power into their hands in October, 1917, that government has, in the name of the Russian people, called upon the people of the whole world to establish an enduring peace. This peace' must be based upon mutual! renouncement of all seizure of other peoples' land, and of all forced contribution from any people; all people whether they are great or small, whether they have lived until now with a free life, or whether they form against their own will a part of another country, shall be free in their inner life and no power shall interfere with them within this limit.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.