THE WORLD AT THE CROSS ROADS " The situation here
more
direction
away
yet.
The
is
moving
in a revolutionary
Of course, we are far swiftly. prices of necessaries are rising,
though the cost of living is not supposed to have risen this month. Unemployment is now acute The unand the unemployed are restive. employed in various towns are to march to factories, enter them, make speeches, and speak of Ex-soldiers are to arm and drill." 1 seizing them. .
Thus,
it
.
.
not without reason that the Red
is
Gazette, the official organ of the Petrograd Soviet, boasted about the power of the Third Interna-
When
tionale. it
stated
referring to the English situation,
:
"Already we are entering directly into international negotiations with the proletariat of that country in whose hands until the present all the threads of the international policy were concentrated." 2
At present Soviet propaganda is being carried on more arrogantly than at any time in the past.
The October convention ent to
Socialist
Party
of the
at
German Independ-
Halle
substantiate this assertion. 1
certainly
serves
Mr. Apfelbaum
See article entitled "Courier to Lenin Seized in London,"
New 2
York Times, October 28, 1920. Translation from Russian. Compare
"Workers' Diplomacy,"
December
in the
18, 1919.
323
Red
article
entitled
Gazette, in its issue of