who are convinced revolutionaries or will become
so in answer to repression.

The Communists believe that to let power slip
from their hands at this moment would be treach-
ery to the revolution. And, in the face of the
advancing forces of the Allies and Kolchak many
of the leaders of the opposition are inclined to
agree with them, and temporarily to submit to
what they undoubtedly consider rank tyranny.
A position has been reached after these eighteen
months not unlike that reached by the English
Parliament party in 1643. I am reminded of a
passage in Guizot, which is so illuminating that
I make no apology for quoting it in full: --

"The party had been in the ascendant for three
years: whether it had or had not, in church and
state, accomplished its designs, it was at all events
by its aid and concurrence that, for three years,
public affairs had been conducted; this alone was
sufficient to make many people weary of it; it was
made responsible for the many evils already en-
dured, for the many hopes frustrated; it was de-
nounced as being no less addicted to persecution
than the bishops, no less arbitrary than the king:

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