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 have done yesterday and to-day in our debates on this platform. I believe the Executive acted rightly in maintaining during half & year the greatest foresight and toleration towards the French Party. This however should by no means be taken as a reason for preventing us from saying now what we think proper to say. I am of the opinion that just for the French Party, the so-called "Leftist foibles" are now not quite so dangerous. On considering the present situation in the French Party as a whole, everybody is bound to admit that the danger to the Party is not so much from the Left side, but rather more from the side of the opportunist elements. (Approval.)

The movement among the young people in France is weak. If it commits follies, they must be pointed out. Even if the Party, as a whole, is opportunist, the young people as the vanguard need not be opportunist too. The attitude of the young people can be very useful to the Party from a sanitary standpoint.

I believe that just in the French Party the old traditions brought in by some parliamentary deputies are very dangerous, and must be combatted at all costs. Yesterday and also to-day it was pointed out here that the "Humanité" it not quite a Communist paper. Comrade Kun was already rebuked here to-day, and I do not wish to add in any way to the unpleasantness of his existence. Already his assertion that "Humanité" is worse than the "Freiheit," does not correspond to the reality: The "Freiheit" is a directly counter-revolutionary paper, while the "Humanité" is at most not quite a Communist paper. The "Humanité" is developing forward, the "Freiheit" backwards. Frossard goes forward, slowly, hesitatingly, retreating now and then. The "Humanité" is honestly for Russia; "Freiheit" conducts a disguise…

FROELICH—An open one.

ZINOVIEV—… and dirty propaganda against the only proletarian State. It is doing black-leg work. Yet we must insist on the "Humanité" becoming