don Daily Herald, but many facts are known to point in the contrary direction. It will be noted that the Bolshevists treat the entire labor press and even the non-Bolshevist Socialist press as "bourgeois."
The Bolshevists regard their enormous expenditures in mendacious propaganda as having been brilliantly successful and there is some ground for their claim. Zinoviev has recently summed up this success at length in Pravda, November 7, 1920. We note a few sentences:
The campaign of slander was very well organized by the bourgeoisie and by its lackeys from the II "Internationale"; it was organised, one may say, scientifically and with talent. But nevertheless, we can say with the greatest pride, that we came out victorious from this unequal struggle. …
Up to the present, the international proletariat as a whole was on the defensive, and now it will be able to assume the offensive. …
When Soviet troops were at the gates of Warsaw, it became particularly clear that the international proletariat is entering on a stage which can be called: passing from the defensive to the offensive. …
The Council of Action in London, which showed such brilliant activity for a couple of weeks, was undoubtedly the forerunner of English Soviets of Workmen's Deputies.
Zinoviev's reference to the Second Internationale also includes as non-proletarian and bourgeois the entire non-Bolshevist Labor Union and Socialist press of Europe.
Krassin has also made recent reference to the success of the Soviet propaganda, frankly stating that "the hostility of Great Britain had been overcome by propa-
