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 158 We prefer such an understanding to fraternization with the so-called free countries.

At the same time the Bolshevists have endeavored to line up for war upon England and France, alongside the junkers, the junkers' bitter enemies, the German communists.

The revolutionary German socialist leader Crispien, just returned from a visit to Russia at the invitation of the Soviets declared:

While the Soviets rely largely upon wars out of which revolutions are expected to arise, they rely still more upon the direct results of revolutionary propaganda and organization through the Third Internationale. Their complicity in the German revolutionary movement of March, 1921, for example, is proved by the open assertions of the Moscow communist organ in Berlin, Die Rote Fahne.

In spite of such absolutely conclusive evidence and of innumerable other instances of equally stupid Bolshevist duplicity several entirely conservative non-Bolshevist newspapers in America and England insisted that it was incredible that Moscow could at the same time be instigating revolutions and seeking trade by governmental agreements!