 would meet them on the street, especially the Russians, because there was a Jewish population here that spoke Russian, obviously, and had come from the pale and spoke with the Russians, et cetera, and did. In fact, there were petitions from the Jewish population that hopefully peace would be achieved in an honorable way, but that the fighting would stop. And so this constant social milieu where people were encouraging the delegates clearly had an effect, especially in terms of neither side wanting to be the ones