by its manager
and greatest living expert: its scope, a confederation of the world's
Communists, a coalition of the Communist parties of all countries; its
size, 8,000,000 members, perhaps greatly exaggerated; its nature, "an
instrument of revolution;" and its determination, to carry on
propaganda, for the violent seizure of every land by a dictatorship, "no
matter what happens, legally or illegally." Let us reflect that it is
with this Third International, and not the Russian Soviet Government,
that Hillquit's Party in America is affiliated, according to the
testimony of the Socialists themselves at Albany. Finally, with these
facts for a plummet, let us try to find the bottom of Hillquit's
hypocrisy in pretending at Albany that he and his disciples do not
believe in "revolution" but only in "evolution."

Before passing from Lincoln Eyre's testimony, we further quote from his
cable in the "World" of February 26, 1920, what we may call his
description of "the Third International at work," as follows:

"Zinovieff ... is that combination of idealistic Hotspur and
practical executive which is characteristic of many Bolshevist
leaders. Despite his long years in exile with Lenine, to whose
Doctor Johnson he played Boswell ably and loyally, this
shock-haired enthusiastic young Jew--he is to-day scarcely
forty--was able to run Petrograd.... Petrograd is still underfed,
underheated, dirty and desolate, but it continues to live.... For
this Zinovieff, as all-mighty controller of the city's destinies,
... deserves credit....

"Besides having a hand in everything that concerns local
administration, and most things which have to do with national
government, he personally edits and writes many pages of the Third
Internationale's organ, 'The Internationale Communist,' a monthly
magazine of some 250 pages printed simultaneously in Russian,
English, French and German. Moreover, he passes upon all important
printed matter emanating from the Internationale's press. Every
foreign Communist coming to Moscow or Petrograd sees Zinovieff and
gets pointers from him how to propagate Bolshevism.

"In the seven weeks I spent in Moscow, three delegates arrived from
the United States and literally scores from Germany, Hungary,
Austria, Switzerland, Scandinavia, Roumania, Bulgaria, Italy,
China, Japan, Corea, India, Afghanistan and Asia