Page:Samuel Gompers - Out of Their Own Mouths (1921).djvu/193

 Rh Daily Herald, but many facts are known to point in the contrary direction. It will be noted that the Bolshevists treat the entire labor press and even the non-Bolshevist Socialist press as "bourgeois."

The Bolshevists regard their enormous expenditures in mendacious propaganda as having been brilliantly successful and there is some ground for their claim. Zinoviev has recently summed up this success at length in Pravda, November 7, 1920. We note a few sentences:

Zinoviev's reference to the Second Internationale also includes as non-proletarian and bourgeois the entire non-Bolshevist Labor Union and Socialist press of Europe.

Krassin has also made recent reference to the success of the Soviet propaganda, frankly stating that "the hostility of Great Britain had been overcome by propa-