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repeated it with the machine-gun de-
tachment. Two-thirds held up their
hands.
Talk to them IL you like re-
marked the commandant, as he turn
cd away. The soldiers of fortune
eagerly dropped their spades, SHOW
els and picks. Finding that l spoke
German and had just come from
Berlin, they talked freely.
Only one young German, 19-he
had enlisted when livery frankly
admitted that Itch ha5c genug' CT
have enough of it") and would be
glad when his enlistment expired
three years hence. The other Ger
mans-and l questioned lot of
them-expressed themselves al the
way from "It's not so bad in the
Legion" to declarations of intentions
to re-cnlist because they liked the
life. One Germany corporal told
me had just re-enlistcd for another
five years. He liked soldering. And
what chance was there in Germany
these days.
"Das Essen ist auSgezeichnet"
c'Thc food is excellcnt'O remarked
one German, as he shifted the saw
DRY odor from two gasoline cans
improvised as boilers, on a camp
fire few yards away. He rcmem-
bered his last year in the German
army toward the end of the war
when he was thankful for n crust
and some stuff called "coffee" but
having no relation to it. lie enlist
cd when food was still hard to get
after the end Of tie war.
ASLEEP ON POST.
The Legion is famous for three
things. Discipline, fighting and cook
ing. The latter especially seemed to
find high favor with the German
element. which, to a large extent,
still have vivid memories of barren
cupbOards in Germany when they
left. All were abusive, not alone the
Germans. Of the "unbearable. hellish
heat" TO work or to fight in such
a heat calls for stamina.
Looking over the scrgeants and
corporals l found that a majority of
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the non-commisSioned officers are
German. And the thoroughness of
the German drill sergeant is tradi-
tional. He has lost none of that
reputation in the Legion. One Ger
man sergeant told ME he had
served fourteen, another eighteen
years. Asked why they were sticking
by the Legion. they answered: "We
like it." The particular regiment Of
the Legion Of which this battalion
is n part has two former German
army officers serving as serseantS.
also a famous German ace" who
is here under the name Of Wolf.
At the apex of the triangular en-
trenchment. | came across man
stretched out on the ground, on his
back. under bit of dirty brown
canvas raised only eighteen inches
from the ground and JUST wide
enough to cover him.
Here, come out of that" ordered
the commandant. The soldier rolled
out from under his strip of canvas
and stood at attention. He was n
Roumanian bronzed, black and
bearded. "What are you there forE"
asked the battalion commander, and
then answered his question himself.
ooh, | remembcr-you went to
sleep on sentry duty and gave you
four days in the sun under that
patch of canvas"
"Oui. mon commandant" eyes,
my commandcr'). promptly ac-
knowledged the soldier.
HEAT HIS PUNISHMENT.
"All right. get back UNDER
ordered the major. And the Rou-
manian rolled under his canvas
again to literally bake two more
days. The commandant had discov-
cred the soldier asleep on duty-a
very serious offense in any army in
time of war, and in Morocco it is
war at present. In some armies it
means death or long punishment.
However, he had been Il good sol
dier, had no previous punishment
on his record, so instead of turning
him over to court martial, the
commander of the battalion had
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"The Risings She Provokes Elsewhere
Will One Day Hit America
With Terrific Rebound"

lenses, they hardly gave in this a
very convincing example of grad
ualnesS." SsTiSstsssls
One may from all this make the
deduction that England was sue
cessful in carrying out the prin-
ciple of "gradualncss" within her
borders, just as so far as she was
successful in using force against
other nationalities. During three
centuries England waged an UNI
broken series of wars in order, by
piracy and violence against other
nations, TO widen the sphere Of her
exploitation, to annex the wealth
Of others, TO kill their trade, to de-
stroy their sca-power, and thereby
to enrich the British ruling class.
A serious examination Of facts
and of their inner connection, in
evitably brings us to the conclusion
that the propertied classes in Eng
land succeeded in evading reyolu-
tionary cataclysms at home just
in so far as they were able by war
and other forms of violence in for
cign countries to increase their ma
terial power, which enabled them
while they made timely and always
niggardly concessions, to hold revo-
lutionary outbreaks Of the masses
in check.
CONSERVATISM SLIPPING.
1t is significant that the more
radical elements Of the modern
British labor movement are mostly
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Imagination. Thief of Time

which Shakespeare alluded, Imag-
ination is capable of picturing mo-
ments in the unknown future that
transcend in drcadfulness any ex-
pcricnced by the Prince of Den
mark.
MALEVOLENT THOUGHT.
To speculate in fancy upon the
hour either Of ones own death or
of the death of someone dcarer than
oneself, is to give Time an unwar-
ranted tinge of malevolence, and
moreover ones conceptions of future
actualitics are quite as unreliable
as were the registrations oS hours
on the little watch to which l have
referred.
If in worldly matters we would
always regard Time as of the pres
ent and not let imagination call up
possible happenings Of the future
or vain regrets for opportunities
neglected in the past, would we not
be more efficient in whatever pur-
suit we are engaged!
Procrastination is, / know, be-
setting sin of my own. 1t has right
fully been denounced as the thief
of time" but there would be no
procrastinating if human imagina-
ton were able, as alas it is not. TO
invest each arriving moment with
the preciousness that is its due.
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hands in the middle of the day, at
S o'clock, at which hour was sup
posed to go to bed, and then mild
ly wondering, since it was now bed
time, why l was not sleepy. More
satisfaction was perhaps expert
cnccd by making the hour very much
later at night and then realizing
Tor it seemed SOY that although it
was close to midnight, l was still
up with the grown folk.
Nothing of course by magma
ton, with which many children arc
gifted-or afflicted-and yet as
took back at its operation there
dawns upon me the thought that
any imagination in connection with
Time is something to be avoided.
If one would get the most out of
life all imaginings upon the sub
jcct should be taboo.
In the first place, Time is no
more susceptible of being truly
imagined than in Eternity. We
are merely experiencing the former
as we hope to experience the latter.
The imagination Of man in n
dentists chair will clothe Time with
a quality of duration in no way re-
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By LEON TROTZKY
MOSCOW, October, 1925.

MOSCOW, October, l02J.
7 PREDICT England is heading
u rapidly for revolution. TO accuse
me of trying to bring it about would
be like accusing an astronomer of
causing the solar eclipse which he
forctclls. Economic causes are has
tening it; the real revolutionary is
not Moscow, but New York.
British industry. finance and
diplomacy are becoming helpless
and hopeless under the pressure of
America. The United States must
expand its market, on pain Of dy-
ing of an apoplcctic stroke. But
American trade can expand only ut
the expense of other exporting coun-
tries, notably England.
No pamphlet from Moscow mp
proachos in revolutionary vigor the
Dawes scheme, which subjects the
whole industrial life of a great poo
pie to the iron grip of American
control.
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dictated four days on the ground
under that bit of canvas in the
fierce sun, and four nights, too.
Nearby stood an armed sentry TO
see that the Rumanian Lcgionaire
carried out his scntene. lie was
given n certain amount of water
and dry bread. Severe as the pun
ishmcnt is in that sun, the Ruman-
ian could congratulate himself on
getting off so easily.
SUPPLIES TARDY.
The commandant invited me 10
tea with him under n patch of
canvas on four poles, about rs
large as a big door. There was no
milk nor butter, but some dry
bread and dried-out bologna.
Our supplies have not reached
us yet" apologized the command
ant.
The bugle sounded cease work"
1t was nine o'clock. Working hours
in the morning in that terrific heat
are from five to nine in the morn
ing and from five to seven in the
evening. The soldiers dropped
their shovels and picks. With great
alacrity they moved to the bank of
the river, stripped off the little
clothes they had on and plunged
into the ycllowish waters. In a mo-
ment there was a babble of Ger
man from the bobbing heads.
1t would be interesting to know
how many men, from one cause or
other, are hiding in the Legion
under assumed names. Numerically
next to the Germans are the Rus
slams in the Legion, not a few of
them former Russian officers. With
the Russians as with the Germans,
the reasons they assign for being
in the Legion are much more
economic than love Of adventure
Taking into consideration that
numerically the Germans compose
Il majority of the Legion, their
record for infractions of discipline
and punishment is the lowest of
any Of the foreign elements, l was
told.
There are many slough nuts"
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"Donnerwetter! Els ist verdammt
Heis!" (Thunder and blazes, but it
is damned hot!) This popular
German "cuss word" was the first
indication that 1 had that German
was almost the language of the
Legion.
HEARS GERMAN.
Our car could not get down into
the little valley where the outpost
of detachment of the Legion was
"digging-in" on the banks of
stream. We got out and walked
down n field railway. A young
corporal, who quickly announced
himself to me as an Englishman,
came to guide us to the outpost.
There are three of us English
and three Americans in our battal-
ion of the Legion and We stick to-
gether," he volunteered. He had
''adventurcd" all over South Amer
lea and Mexico. Asked how he
liked the Legion, he said: Tt's
fine for those who like soldering
and it's a great body of fighters.
but am fed up with this blawsted
heat. We had it so nice in South
crn Morocco where a part of our
regiment still is"
HOTTER THAN IN YUMA.
I remarked that the terrific heat
and the immediate surrounding
country reminded me of the Arizora.
Mexico border and around Yuma.
80 you have been there, too"
quickly replied the corporal. $50
it is, but worse. That is only the
antc-room to hell. This is hell
itself"
In my days in Southern Arizona
it was popular saying that the in
habitants of hades cc-lc to Yuma to
get warm.
The battalion commander came
out to greet us as We neared the out
post, n splendid type of the scholar
ly and gentlemanly French officer,
with a refined face and pleasing
personality. He introduced his
staff, including Captain Pau. son
Of the famous French general of
that name.
The battalion was guarding four
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is no exaggeration to say that the
Legion has drawn to its ranl- many
times more sturdy, hardy Germans
than any other country-in fact
more than from ell the rest Of the
world put together. Numerically,
and no less in soldicrly qualities,
the Germans are the very flower of
the French Foreign Legion. What
this means may best be understood
when it is known that the Legion
is composed of about 80 or 80 ma
tionalities and that the German ele-
ments represent around 80 per cent
of the total.
The French are proud Of the Ger
mans-proud that the enemies of
yesterday are fighting Frances bat
ties of today. And that for the sum
of about Is cents q day as pay. The
French officers in the Legion-and
there are some very fine officers
among them-prafsed the Germans
highly to me. With but a few ex-
ceptions, the Germans told me that
they were well treated and quite a
number declared they liked the serv-
ice in the Legion and purposed to
re-enlist.
My visit to the Legion came partly
through statements in the German
press that the Germans were being
sacrificed by the French in war
against the Riffs and partly that it
happened that Marshal Lyautey. the
grand old man" of Morocco and
Govcrnor-Gcncral, detailed Major
Austraud. formerly French military
attache in Athens. more recently
battalion commander in the Legion,
as a sort of aide de-camp to me dur
ing my tour along and behind the
French lines.
Premier and Minister OF War
Plainlcye had asked Marshal Ly-
autey to extend to me every facility.
The marshal himself told me in
Rabat, "Commandant Austraud has
orders to take you wherever you
want to 60" And the commandant,
rs n major who commands a bat
talon is called in the French Le-
gion, carried out his orders.
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different points in the vicinity and
on the lookout for Riff raiders who,
Indian-likc, prefer to operate in
the unexpected hours of night or
toward morning. Suddenly sput-
ter of shots from the hilltop or from
behind rocks close at hand; sentries
are picked off and perhaps several
men in camp are killed, and before
they can be seen they are gone.
The Riff is as skilled in that sort
Of work as were the Apache and
g.. Sioux in their day.
DIGGING TRENCHES.
This particular company of the
Legion was digging in on the banks
of n small river. The soldiers OF
fortune, bronzed like Arabs and
wearing khaki, some with sleeves
rolled W and shirt wide open, with
a disregard for neatness that would
have shocked the fastidiousncss of
many officers in the American army,
were digging trenches in the furnace
white heat of a pitiless sun.
The watchful eyes Of several SER
geants were on them. 1t is a phase
Of Legion life-this hard work at
times-which many an adventure
seeking young soldier of fortune does
not reckon on. Life in the Legion
is far from being merely ,"adven-
turc." There is a lot Of hard work
and training connected with it.
gave little start as l heard
the broad German "Donnerwctter'
as we approached the first trench.
Surprise you to hear German
here? Well, you will find that more
German is spoken in the Legion
than any other language" the bat
talon commander remarked. Il can
assure you there is no prejudice
against the Germans or the Ger
man language in the Legion"
NO PREJUDICE.
1t was S in the morning. A cruel
sun beat down. Hadcs cannot be
hotter. As we passed the first trench
/ asked that the order be given Ger
mans, hands up" The commander
quickly complied. Up went hands all
along the trench-more than half. /
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otzy Predicts Revolt England War for America Coming Soor

Egypt by the help of the princi-
pie of "gradualness."
The policy of the British prop
ertied classes with regard to India
is more frankly expressed in Lord
Salisbury's words, India must be
blcdw The history of unhappy
Ireland is particularly rich in eX-
amplcs of peaceful evolutionary
methods on the part Of the British
propcrticd classes. When General
Roberts troops broke the Boer de-
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"America Is Enslaving Europe, Rem
dering Revolution Inevitable"
Soviet Leader Declares.

Pretending to help Europe to re-
store her shattered finances, Amer
ice is simply SCATTERING one illusion
after another of the initiation pc
Rod and helping Europe TO trans
late its poverty and dependence into
the language of metallic currency.
Now pressing and now reprieving
her debtors, now granting and now
refusing credit, America is, in fact,
cnslavins them and rendering revo-
luton inevitable. Compared with
Wall Street, the communist inter-
rational is a conservative institu-
ton.
In this work America makes
England her abettor and her in
termcdiary. Their cooperation,
however, conceals the deepest an
tagonism, which at no distant date
will break out in conflict. The
revolutions which she provokes else
where will one day hit America
with terrific rebound. But her
turn will not come first. She will
have the satisfaction of watching
first the crash of her elder Euro
pean sisters.
ENGLAND NOW SECOND.
From the industrial revolution.
beginning with the invention of ma
and of the railroad created
100 years ago this year till the emil
Of last century, England held the
dominant position in the world.
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of Irish or Scottish birth (this
rule, of course, does not apply to
the Scot MacDonald).
The combined social and national
oppression, together with the clash
of the agricultural and the capital
istic interests, creates sharp men
tai changes.
But the foundations Of conser-
vatism in England life are ir-
retrievably sapped.
The Pacifist Macdonald, as Labor
prime minister last year, began to
build cruisers, to imprison Indians
and Egyptians, and TO perform OPP
erations in diplomacy with the aid
of forged documents.
PREDICTS COMMUNISM.
Macdonald remains upon the
capitalist basis, but adds thereto
timid amendments, which solve
nothing, rid one Of nothing, but
merely increase all difficulties and
dangers. At the same time there
has been an enormous mov' in
mass opinion to the left or radical
Gdes.
The working classes, having
created their own party, expect II
TO act. As it bourgeois character
prevent it from doing so. there
must come a time when the Com
munist party will take within the
labor party the place now oceu-
pied by the British independent
labor party.
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Today she must take the second
place. Her lost markets and her
foreign debt explain her chronic I'M
employment in England the wreck
of the liberal tradition little
longer. MacDonald's position is
even less safe than Lloyd Georges.
Hitherto the fear Of revolution
pushed the English bourgeoise into
a long series of reforms.
Now it merely paralysis bour-
geois activity in the field Of poll
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NO PREJUDICE.

tics. Just as it causes the British
investor to dread the risk of in
ycsting his capital in British indus
try. What is needed now to bring
about reform is no longer the fear
of revolution, but revolution itself
The only question is how quick
ly the communist party can grow
strong enough to make practical
use of this crisis. On that hangs
the fate of England.
Mr.. Baldwin labors the point
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Drill masters and
Mon CONS" of
Kaiser's Crack
Troops NowPush
Warfare in Afri-
ca Against Riffs.
Feel Better Off
Than in Postwar
Germany.

and individuals Of the "hard boil
cd" type in the Legion. There is
admittedly also a sprinkling Of
criminal elements from different
parts of the world. To keep such
men in hand, discipline is very
rigorous and infractions severely
punished. Stories were told me
Of numerous cases where criminals
had been reformed and remade into
real men again through the severe
service in the Legion. This does
not come out unless as often it
does. that the man upon his dis
charge tells his real name and what
he has been in the outside world.
The Legion, however, makes no
claim for reforming bad men" nor
is it particularly DESTROYS of that
type. In the Legion a man is a
man. Nothing else counts. All arc
treated alike.
The man who enlists in the L.
gion can give any name and ma
tionality he desires. No questions
are asked, no investigations are
made. There was much amusement
among the officers over a black Sem
csalese "nisger" enlisting as a
Swiss" He took advantage of the
rule, no questions asked, and
though Switzerland probably would
not own him as a citizen, Swiss
was allowed to stand opposite his
name on the roster.
One battalion is composed of 20
nationalities, of which the Germans
alone comprise 46 per cent, not
counting the Germans from Pc.
land, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hun
gary and Switzerland, which would
bring the percentage considerably
over so.
BODY OF FIGHTERS.
There are not II 900 Germans. as
recently claimed in the German
press. The entire Legion does not
number much more. There are four
regiments and 1 understand that
Marshal Lyautey, the great friend
and champion of the Legion, is try
ing to get the French government
TO authorize the formation of a fifth
regiment.
My impressions of the Legion are
that it is the finest body Of fight.
ing men in the world today. The
real soldier of fortune always is II
good fighter. One has but to recall
that during one phase of the French
revolution the famous Swiss
Guards"-all soldiers of fortune,
mercenaries, if you please-fought
and died TO the last man.
In the Legion l found a remark
able esprit de corps and a loyalty
and personal devotion of the soldiers
TO their officers that is rare in any
army. During the present war with
the Riffs, the Legion has the en-
viablc distinction, / was told. Of
never having left n wounded officer
on the field if forced to fall back.
would like to command in the
Legion. l know those soldiers
would never abandon me, whatever
the peril.
Copyright, 1929
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By K. H. Won WIEGAND

The economic dictator Of new
Russia, who has Just broken down
from overwOrk. Before he left
Moscow last week for a brief rest
in the Caucasus, he published n
remarkable pamphlet on world con
diiions. Following is condensed
summary of his ideas given in his
own words).
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pignan. Only the skill Of the French
pilot brought the two safely through,
the landing being made after dark.
By K. H. Won WIEGAND
Staff Correspondent San Antonio Light
WITH THE FRENCH FOREIGN
FORCES ON THE FIRING LINE
IN MOROCCO, NORTH OF FEE.
SEPT, 1926
DETWEEN eight and ten thou
- sand Germans are fighting I'M
der the French flag for France and
the supremacy Of the white man in
North Africa in the hellish heat
on this front against the rcbellious
Abd-el-Krim and his mountain
.tribesmen.
Foreign Legion
What words to conjure with in
the Imagination of adventurc-scek-
ing youth and in the annals OF SOL
diers Of fortune in every part of the
world!
And the backbone of this, the
worlds most famous, the greatest
and last aggregation of real SOL
diers of fortune from every corner
Of the globe-declared to be the
finest and best fighting troop in
existence today-German.
GERMANS PREDOMINANT
Thousands Of Germans-many OF
whom fought against France but
yesterday with Teutonic tenacity
and skill-not few Of them former
German officers-today fighting
and dying in Frances most famous
fighting corps, that France may not
lose her vast North African empire,
more than four times as large in
area as France herself. And those
Germans fighting hard, fighting 10y
ally as if fighting for their own
country, and that in the furnace
like heat Of these sun-bakcd arid
mountains, comparable to The
Needles, Yuma, Arizona, and the.
Mexican Summer in July, only
worse.
That was the greatest surprise
and revelation to me on this trip
along the French-Riff line in north
ern Morocco. L had heard much
in Germany and read more in the
German press about German en-
listment in the Foreign Legion since
the war. Figures were given pur-
porting to show that more than
$4,000 Germans were in the Le-
gion and that thousands had been
killed or wounded.
IN MAJORITY.
considered these exaggcrations,
and / find when on the ground,
that they are exaggerations. But it
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CALLS BRITAIN VIOLENT.

1t is full of violent changes
which the British ruling classes
have made in the lives of other
nations. Thus it would be inter-
esting to know if it is possible to
explain the seizure of India or