I. Foodstuffs obtained by the War Grain Transactions Department
  (corn, cereal products, leguminous fruits, fodder, seeds): 

Total imported for the contracting states
(Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey)       113,421 tons
Of which Austria-Hungary received                        57,382   "
Grain and flour amounting to                           46,225   "

II.  Articles obtained by the Austrian Central Purchasing Company: 

Of which
Austria-Hungary
Total received: 

Butter, fat, bacon                3,329,403 kg.          2,170,437 kg. 
Oil, edible oils                  1,802,847 "              977,105 "
Cheese, curds                       420,818 "              325,103 "
Fish, preserved fish, herrings    1,213,961 "              473,561 "
Cattle                              105,542 head            55,421 head
(36,834,885 kg.)       (19,505,760 kg.)
Horses                               98,976 head            40,027 head
(31,625,172 kg.)       (13,165,725 kg.)
Salted meat                       2,927,439 "            1,571,569 "
Eggs                                 75,200 boxes           32,433 boxes
Sugar                            66,809,969 kg.         24,973,443 kg. 
Various foodstuffs               27,385,095 "            7,836,287 "
-------------          -------------
Total                  172,349,556 "           61,528,220 "
and 75,200 boxes       and 32,433 boxes
eggs                   eggs
(Total, 30,757 wagons)        (Total, 13,037 wagons)

The goods imported under II. represent a value of roughly 450
million kronen.

The quantities smuggled unofficially into the states concerned
are estimated at about 15,000 wagons (about half the official
imports).

So ended this phase, a phase which seemed important while we were living through it, but which was yet nothing but a phase of no great importance after all, since it produced no lasting effect.

The waves of war have passed over the Peace of Brest-Litovsk, washing it away as completely as a castle of sand on the shore is destroyed by the incoming tide.

Long after I was reproached by the Polish element in the Herrenhaus, who asserted that I had proved my incapability by my own confession that the Peace of Brest had not withstood the test of subsequent events.  But should I have shown more capability by asserting, after the collapse of the Central Powers, that the peace still existed?

The term “bread peace” (Brotfrieden) was not coined by me, but by Burgemeister Weisskirchner on the occasion of my reception by the Gemeinderat of Vienna at the Nordbahnhof.  The millions whose lives were saved by those 42,000 wagon-loads of food may repeat the words without a sneer.

CHAPTER XI

THE PEACE OF BUCHAREST