Minor countries.
The only important states from which few Communistic envoys come
are Britain and France. Practically all these missionaries are
obliged to travel illegally, that is, with false passports or
without any. They slip across the fighting fronts that encircle the
Soviet Republic in astonishing ways, risking death and all forms of
hardship to reach Moscow. The one-time seat of Moscow's Emperors
has become to Communists the world over what Mecca is to the
Mohammedan pilgrims.

"A youthful emissary of the I. W. W. said to me: 'We come here to
drink of the fountain of revolutionary youth.' I asked him what he
thought would happen when Russia's frontiers were opened. 'We shall
come as we come now, but in greater numbers and with greater ease,'
he replied.

"'But won't the Third Internationale send its Russian agitators
abroad then, thus making it unnecessary for you to come here?'
'What for?' he retorted. 'There is no use sending Russians to talk
to American workmen. Americans will close their ears to a foreigner
where they will open them wide to one of their own countrymen. The
Third Internationale is a realistic organization. It has learned
long ago that racial and national prejudices, however misguided
they may be, are deep seated and cannot be overcome in a day. It
aims to get results, and so it lets Americans talk to Americans.'
...

"The Bolsheviki are as eager to precipitate a world revolution as
ever. But at the moment they are even more eager to establish
relations with the markets of the world, so that Russia may be
saved from economic catastrophe.... The Kremlin realizes full well
that it cannot hope to spread Bolshevism by means of its own
people. And with the Third Internationale headed by Zinovieff,
operating in close contact with the National Communist groups, it
knows it does not have to."

Thus the overtures of peace and promises of good behavior made by the
Russian Soviet Government to the other Powers are pure humbug; and
equally false are the professions of peace in America which Hillquit's
branch of the Third International has made to lull the fears of the
American people. To get the full force of this parallelism we have only
to place the law-breaking Socialist Party of America since 1917 in juxta
position with the hypocritical Social