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will contribute much towards the development of the Czecho-Slovak Labour movement into a real Communist party, into a real militant party. (Stormy, prolonged approval and cheers.)
THE FRENCH QUESTION.
Zinoviev's Speech at the Session of the Executive Committee on June 17th, 1921.
Comrades, I would like to fully explain to the members of the Executive our attitude towards the French Party.
As a matter of fact, the old Executive in its last composition had come to accept this Party, and this decision was made known through a series of notices.
As you know, Serati complained against me and against the Executive, asserting that we, in his opinion, had made exceedingly great concessions to the French Party. As regards the attitude of the Italian Socialist Party, we have a whole collection of documents and resolutions at our disposal. This collection sets out all the alleged reasons why, as a representative of the Executive, I treated the French Party differently from the Italian; why I had signed a special covenant with the French comrades, so to speak. Serati had written a great number of articles wherein he demanded the same treatment for the Italian Party as was given to the French Party.
I deem it my duty to explain here the attitude which we have maintained towards the French comrades, and for what special reasons.
It is true that we had the intention of acting more cautiously and in a more conciliatory manner with regard to the French Party than towards the Italian
