San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-22

sonal friend he was, and that Mar
tens was being attacked in New
York not only by the Communists but
also by the United States government
and that if Moscow recalled hin
while the United States was investi
eating him it would be a show OF
weakness and bad judgment on the
part Of the leaders in Moscow.
We returned to Amsterdam and
the next day had long visit with
Wynkoop, a member of the Dutch
Parliament and an important figure
in Holland. He was elected to Par
lament as a Communist by the Com
munist party in Holland.
He told us that Sylvia Pankhurst
and other delegates had arrived and
were stopping at various hotels. This
had a magic effect on Fraina, who
whispered to me that this would
justify US in going to hotel, and
he demanded that we give up our
room at once. We also learned that
there would not be more than about
twenty-five delegates, all told. ] men
zion this because the American public
has the idea that such meetings have
been attended by large numbers OF
delegates.
FEW DELEGATES.
But the twenty-five delegates were
very important ones. They included
Roland-Holst, the Doetess; Rutgers
and Wynkoop, from Holland; MUIR
ply, Willis. and Pankhurst, from
England; Clara Zetkin, from Ger
many; Stuka. from Austria, and dele
gates from China, Japan, India and
other countries.
Stuka was one Of the most interest
ing men have ever seen. Only
about four feet high, and badly de-
formed, he wore his hair almost as
long as q woman's. He had the most
vitriolic tongue ] ever heard. He
talked to every delegate in his own
language and seemed to be thorough
ly familiar with almost every language
in general use in the world. In adj
ditioD he was n scholar and writer.
DELEGATES WATCHED.
Wynkoop told us the Dutch authori-
ties were watching us carefully, and
asked ii our passports were in proper
order. He said that our meeting
might be raided by the immigration
authorities.
I told him frankly that Fraina's
passport was faxed. 1t will be re-
called that 1 had gotten Fraina n
passport under another name with the
secret permission of the American De-
partment Of Justice. But, Of course,
i only said that j had fooled the
American authorities. After looking
the passport over, Wyn6oop said that
on its face it was all right and that
we had nothing TO fear.
When we got away from Wynkoop,
Fraina insisted on living in a hotel.
| said that we would stay. The
lure of luxury still held him. The
upshot was that / went to the best
hotel in Amsterdam, and he remained
in the furnished room. took a room
with two baths. Later he slept at
the hotel, and one Of the baths was
for him. He kept up the furnished
room as pretense.
INTERNATIONAL MEETS.
Four days after our arrival in
Amsterdam the international got
down to business. We assembled in
a large room in an office building
and appeared before the credentials
committee. Rutgers was chosen q
chairman and just as he was intro
ducing the first speaker, Willis, of
rot up and sprung a sur
prise that almost knocked me over
when he said:
Il object to Comrade Nozovitsky
being here. He is absolutely unreli-
able"
1 had only met him once casually,
but knew he was close TO Rothstein
and knew he was speaking for Roth
stein. At first 1 feared that he was
going to expose my Scotland Yard
connection, but my brain worked
quickly and / knew that IL he had
like that on me he would
have informed them privately and L
would never have been allowed to at
tend the meeting. Therefore | deduced
that whatever he was going to say
was debatable and not conclusive.
CLEARED OF SUSPICION.
A dead silence fell over the meeting
and Rutgers asked him what he had
to say against me.
He said that while ] had been
courier for Martens ] had been en-
trusted with q parcel Of literature and
documents and that / had never de-
livered them TO Martens.
My mind was easier. 1t was moth
ing to worry about.
Without rising and without even
looking at Willis 1 said:
twill Comrade Willis kindly ex-
plain what became of that particular
parcel?"
II don't know" said Willis.
Then / got up and in loud voice
lslled if there was anyone in the room
who could tell what had happened to
he parcel.
Fraina got up and said: "That
parcel was delivered 10 the Commun-
st party of America"
L then addressed the chair:
"Comrnde, my party is higher to me
han any government, including the
Soviet government. The international
secretary of the Communist party of
testifies that the parcel in
question was delivered to the Com
nunist party of America. That closes
he incident. Let's proceed to bust
less."
WINS CONFIDENCE.
1t was n ticklish situation. / could
lave explained further that the execu-