sity. There is no doubt about it, these Bolsheviks
want whole-hearted friends : they
accept no half-hearted service from anyone.
They are entitled to this because they themselves
are not half-hearted. They do not
believe in giving lip service to a cause, and
especially the cause of the International. He
would hear nothing of the Second International
or of any other except the Moscow
Third International. He told us many stories
of his adventures and of the manner in which
French and English officers and troops had
been used to try and pull down the Soviet
Government.
Here again was a man who professed precious little religious belief, but he had a great faith. To him the British Labour Movement was a great force. He rather wavered on the question of the necessity of violence in this country, agreeing that our forms and our developments were different from those of other countries. But all the same, like everyone else I spoke to, he came back to the old point that experience up to the present had shown that the governing classes had not yet given way on any essential matter and it was very doubtful if they would do so without a violent upheaval.
I want to put on record what a lovable personality this man is, the tenderness with which he looks out on life. In this respect he is a
