[17] In reality the states still exchange ambassadors and, in the official German language, the agreements reached either between two states or several carry the name of Staatsverträge (international treaties). See particularly the international treaty adopted between the Reich on the one hand, and Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony, Wurtemberg, Baden, Hesse, Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Oldenburg on the other, concerning the transfer to the Reich of the railroads of these states, the treaty approved by the National Assembly, April 30, 1920. [18] See Heilfron, _Die deutsche Nationalversammlung im Jahre 1919_, vol. ii, p. 1176. [19] See Julius Kaliski, _Der Kern des Rätegedanken_, in _Welt-Echo_, June, 1919. [20] This is the exact text: “1. For the immediate formation of the cabinets in the Empire and in Prussia, the questions of individual appointments will be decided by the political parties in agreement with the organizations of workers, salaried employés and civil servants taking part in the general strike, and a decisive influence will be accorded to these organizations in the new policies of economic and social legislation, all with the view of safeguarding the rights of popular representation. 2. Immediate disarmament and punishment of all those guilty of participating in the _pronunciamento_ or the overthrow of the constitutional government, as well as of all civil servants who placed themselves at the disposal of the illegal governments. 3. All public and industrial administrations must be radically purged of counter-revolutionary personalities, in particular of those who participate in the management, and these personalities must be replaced by trusted elements. Re-employment of all the representatives of organizations in public services who were made the victims of disciplinary measures. 4. The earliest possible realization of administrative reform on a democratic basis, with the co-operation of the economic organizations of wage-workers, salaried employés and civil servants. 5. The immediate execution of all existing laws and the enactment of new social laws that will accord to wage-workers, salaried employés and civil servants complete social and economic equality; and the immediate enactment of liberal legislation in behalf of civil servants. 6. The immediate socialization of the branches of industry ripe for socialization on the basis of the decisions of the Committee on Socialization, in which representatives of vocational organizations shall take part. The immediate convocation of the Committee on Socialization. The transfer to the Empire of the coal and potash corporations. 7. More effective appropriation and, if need be, the expropriation of available necessities of life; more vigorous war against usurers and profiteers in the country districts and in the cities; guarantees that obligations of deliveries will be executed, insured by the organization of societies for delivery of goods, and the establishment of definite fines and