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 sources the calumny has been spread all over the world that Lenin is not a Russian but a Jew, whose real name is Zederblum; another is that the executive of the C.W.S.D. has only one Russian in a membership of eighteen, and we even find it being stated in England by those who should know better that the majority of the Executive Committee are Jews. This propaganda of insults and lies is too despicable and worthless to deserve much consideration in itself; and it must be said in fairness that the most respectable elements in Russia would not degrade themselves by entering into controversy with this anti-Semitic mentality, which belongs rather to a zoological category than to sane politics. I only mention the agitation en passant, because it raises the very interesting question of the real relation of the Jews to the Revolution.

The vast majority of Jews in Russia are, in fact, to be found in association with the Liberal bourgeoisie and are supporters of the Cadet Party. They loyally supported both the First and Second