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 operate with them, and that we have given them time, and made concessions.

If they now withdraw, they will be withdrawing at the moment when we have a mass party in Germany, which has been tried in the struggle, which has perhaps made great mistakes—we all make mistakes—but we have now a big, experienced revolutionary party in Germany, the party of the revolutionary proletariat, possessing altogether a different moral value in the eyes of the working class. If it should be our misfortune to lose Gorter and his friends, we shall in some way or other survive. this loss; we are convinced that the great majority of the workers, who are still in the K.A.P.D., will, sooner or later, realise their mistake and abandon the idea that they are inviolable. They will say: We are all quite "violable," and the Communist International shall be law to us ail. That is all I have to say to the K.A.P.D.

To conclude with Germany, I desire to say the following concerning the "case of Levi." We have received a letter from Paul Levi, demanding a revision of his expulsion from the German Party. The presidium will submit a resolution on this question to the Congress. As you know, the Executive has confirmed the expulsion. As far as the pamphlet of Levi is dealing with tactical problems, that shall be disposed of under the item of tactics. As for that other question, the talk concerning the Turkestans and all the other nonsense, I believe, and you will no doubt be of the same opinion, that it would be doing too much honour to the pamphlet if I spoke any further about it here. (Applause.) That settles this question.

I shall now pass on to the other parties, first of all the French Party. Our enlarged Executive has submitted a detailed report on this matter. As a matter of fact, we have treated the French Party differently