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but to the alliance of Socialists-, Communists, and bourgeois
Left in France. When M. Daladier finished his speech, his
supporters raised their clenched fists in the Communist
salute, the salute of the Front Populaire to-day.
These two pictures illustrate better than anything else,
perhaps, the remarkable success of Moscow's policy in the
course of the last few months. What I would particularly
emphasize is not the mere fact of co-operation of the non-
Communist states with Moscow, but—far more important—
the fact that those who promote and laud this co-operation do
so with references to peace, liberty and the rights of man. The
hatred and passions which divide the peoples of the Continent
to-day have enabled Moscow to win at Geneva a quite unique
position; a position often almost equivalent to that of an
arbitrator. Indeed, the representative of the Soviet State on
the Council is at liberty again and again to contrast mass
terrorist methods, the exploitation of the coloured peoples by
the Europeans, and so on, with the truly model principles of
Soviet Russian policy.
Is it astonishing that Moscow, having won these unique
successes, is ceasing to show the same consideration for the
bourgeois world as hitherto? This is the only explanation of
the manner in which it dropped the veil at the Congress of
the Communist International held in the autumn of 1935. The
resolutions of this Congress have shown as clearly as possible
that the Soviet Government refuses on principle to dissociate
itself in the future from the activities of the Komintern, whose
object is to bring about revolution in the bourgeois states. On
the contrary^ Moscow is now openly and most thoroughly
co-ordinating the activity of the Soviet Government with that
of the Komintern. No wonder that some countries, notably the
United States, felt obliged to take exception to the attitude of
the Soviet Government on the question of the Komintern.
But since the new president of the Komintern, Dimitrov,
has declared his guiding principle of "Trojan horse" tactics,