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in the summer of 1920, abandoned his policy of excluding all persons from Russia who were not Bolshevists. Socialist and Labor delegations were admitted from England, Italy, France, Germany, Spain, and Sweden which contained non-Bolshevist members. Few if any of their members belonged to the moderate wing of the European labor movement. The majority were pro-Bolshevists and the others represented the revolutionary or orthodox "center" of the movement. On returning to their various countries the majority of these witnesses condemned Bolshevism, root and branch.

Serrati, Dugoni, Vacirca and d'Arragona, of the Italian Socialist and labor union delegation, after their visit, declared that while the capitalist régime had been destroyed "it has not been replaced by anything that meets even the most elementary needs of a civilized people." Crispien, the revolutionary leader of Germany's Independent Socialists, said that under the Third Internationale "a tyranny almost as bad as that of capitalism would prevail." Mrs. Snowden of the British Mission declared not only that the Soviets were anti-socialist and anti-democratic and anti-Christian, but that everybody she had met in Russia outside the Communist party "goes in terror of his liberty or his life." Serrati, editor of Avanti and revolutionary leader of the Italian