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 a Government. For reasons that will be easily understood I did not intend to make this document public, but independent of my own personal wishes in the matter, it was seized during a search made at my house. This circumstance, it is hardly necessary to say no way modifies the value, sense or import of it. That which I had intended to make personally known only to M, Poincare, firmly assured that he would make good use of it for the welfare and honour of France, I have at present no reason for concealing from the public at large. It is without doubt, therefore, that I have nothing to withdraw. To the contradictions, the „interpretations“, that have been formulated, as I am told, in reply to my assertions, I can only repeat what I have already stated most formally and most categorically.

During the following months I had the opportunity of daily convincing myself to an ever greater extent of the vitality of the Soviet Government as well as of the prodigious energy of its work, which at first habhad [sic] entirely escaped me, and which now began to show itself more particularly in certain spheres such as Public Education and the organization of the new army,—the Red Army,—in a particularly brilliant manner.

I will not go into this matter here which, in itself, is worthy of an entire study, or rather, of a whole series of studies and which, consequently, would not well enter into the narrow framework of these notes. I will restrict myself to pointing out the immense services rendered to civilization by the citizen Lunatcharsky and dishis [sic] collaborators. When I consider to-day, after