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 Rh denounced the Prussian plan of conquest against France. Later on Mr. Reitlinger, Jules Favre's private secretary, applied, though of course in vain, to some members of the General Council for getting up by the Council a demonstration against Bismarck, in favor of the Government of National Defense; they were particularly requested not to mention the Republic. The preparations for a demonstration with regard to the expected arrival of Jules Favre in London were made certainly—with the best of intentions in spite of the General Council, which in its address of the 9th of September had distinctly forewarned the Paris workmen against Jules Favre and his colleagues.

What would Jules Favre say if in its turn the International were to send a circular on Jules Favre to all the cabinets of Europe, drawing their particular attention to the documents published at Paris by the late M. Millière?

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,

Secretary to the General Council of the International Workingmen's Association.

256 High Holborn St., W. C., June 12, 1871.

In an article on the "International Association and Its Objects," the London Spectator, like the pious informer that it is, quotes, among other similar meritorious performances, and even more fully than Jules Favre has done it, the above mentioned document of the "Alliance" as the work of the International; and that was done eleven days after the publication of the above rejoinder in the Times.' This does not surprise us. Long ago, Frederick the Great used to say that of all the Jesuits the Protestant ones are the worst.