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serious development Of the colonial
national revolutionary movement di-
rected against French Imperialism, is
present.
The most, however, has been said
about the sterilization of Germany,
which has, however, experienced an
extremely sharp economic crisis and
whole series of financial troubles
and where today unemployment is
growing tremendously. Germany is
experiencing a Locarno crisis and a
crisis of three parties, the social-dem-
ocratic, the German nationalist and
the catholic center party. All this
and the utterance of Hindenburg upon
the necessity of the great coalition "a
government of all parties from the
German nationalists to the social
democrats) as the country would have
to go thru a difficult winter, do not
point to any real sterilization in Ger
many.
Poland, country that appeared
stabilized, is now experiencing an
other crisis. In Poland a combination
Of three factors is ripening: the ma
tional movement, the peasant move
ment and the working class move
ment.
PROCEEDING to the situation in
4 the East, the, speaker declared
that the events in Morocco, India and
Egypt had proceeded much more
quickly in 1925 than one had ex-
pected. In India there exist much
larger masses of the proletariat than
in the other oriental countries, for
this reason it is to be expected that
the movement in India will far over
take the Chinese movement. At the
present moment the center of the
revolutionary movement is in China.
The events in Shanghai in 1925 rep
resent the most important events in
world history in that year. There was
a moment when the young Communist
Party of China and the leaders of the
Shanghai trade unions considered the
question of intensifying the movement
up to the point of armed insurrectioh.
The Comintern advised against such
ideas and proposed a gradual slowing
down and carrying out of a retreat in
time so that the movement should
gain time and the proletariat be able
to digest its experiences. One speaks
very much about the fact that the
whole world situation is determined
by the Anglo-American alliance, we
must, however, not forget the fact of
the contradictions which exist be-
tween England and America.
THE significance of the Locarno
L pact consists in the following:
% Locarno is directed against the
Soviet Union ~ Locarno is an at
tempt to tame bourgeois France.
CD Locarno is an attempt of America
to create situation in Europe favor
able for the expectation of American
capital without risk. (4) Elements
exist in Locarno of a coming to-
gether of the European countries for
mutual defense against the future role
of America. The most important con-
sequence of Locarno consists in the
fact that the Locarno pact is directed
against Soviet Russia. In this con-
nection we must harbor no illusions.
The intervention against the Soviet
Union suffered defeat because Ger
many took no part in it. The decis-
ions Of Locarno are directed towards
winning Germany as a participant in
future Intervention. In this con-
nection, the appeal of Vandervelde in
the words Of Chamberlain that be-
cause two countries make friends this
does not mean that they become the
enemies of third country, will pacify
no one. At the present moment there
is no danger that Germany might take
part in an Intervention, but it is our
duty to take the future perspectives
into consideration. The partial stabil-
ization Of capitalism is a fact, but
parallel with this sterilization factors
are accommodating which call the stab
ilizatiOn into question. Many facts
point to a growth of the revolution
81 LOARNos
Zinoviev then quoted statistics upon
the numerical strength of the most
important sections of the Comintern.
Out of total Of So parties 25 are H.
legal and five half illegal and this
makes an estimation of the exact
membership difficult.
DISCUSSING the situation Of the
~ individual Communist Parties,
zinoyiev stressed the fact that the
5000 to 1000 membership of the Com
munist Party Of Great Britain was no
gauge of its political influence, for in
England political mass parties have
never existed. Despite the small
membership Of the English party, the
significant successes Of Marxism in
England must be recognized.
The whole development of English
economy, particularly the loosening OF
connection between the metropolis
and the eolanies which rnakac a cnp