would not do. But the quickest way of restoring
good conditions in Russia was, of course, peace
and agreement with the Allies. "I am sure we
could come to terms, if they want to come to terms
at all. England and America would be willing,
perhaps, if their hands were not tied by France.
But intervention in the large sense can now hardly
be. They must have learnt that Russia could
never be governed as India is governed, and that
sending troops here is the same thing as sending
them to a Communist University."

I said something about the general hostility to
their propaganda noticeable in foreign countries.

Lenin. "Tell them to build a Chinese wall
round each of their countries. They have their
customs-officers, their frontiers, their coast-guards.
They can expel any Bolsheviks they wish. Revo-
lution does not depend on propaganda. If the
conditions of revolution are not there no sort of
propaganda will either hasten or impede it. The
war has brought about those conditions in all coun-
tries, and I am convinced that if Russia to-day
were to be swallowed up by the sea, were to cease
to exist altogether, the revolution in the rest of

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