The Revolution in the Armies
—had certainly never intended to be used for motoring.
We were to leave on the same night for Buczacz, the headquarters of the 7th Army, which we hoped to reach during the night. Before leaving Kamenetz Podolski we were received by the Soviet of the officers and soldiers' delegates of the armies of the south-west. It was the first time that we had come actually into touch with an organization of that kind. Our interview was much the same as the numerous interviews that we were to have with the Soviets of all formations and units that we visited later on—an extremely cordial reception, an exceptionally attentive public, who listened to our statements with evident sympathy; then questions, nearly always the same, on the situation in occupied Belgium, the possibility of a revolution in Germany, and especially the Stockholm conference. The insistence with which they questioned us on this subject, in the Soviets as at the meetings on the front, shows the extreme importance that this attempt at a reunion of the International had gained
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