exchange of prisoners, the most important
member of his staff was one of the chief assistants
to Sir Basil Thomson—who, I suppose,
knows more about the activities of us
all than we know ourselves. It is mere literal
truth to say that the negotiations between
O’Grady and Litvinoff became cordial and
possible only after this gentleman's return to
England.
I think it well that the British people should understand we are now partially ruled by an irresponsible Secret Police. While the working classes are arguing about the sort of International they wish to establish, the Capitalist Governments have created a new “ International ” made up of spies and Agents Provocateurs, and this in order to preserve for the privileged few in all countries the right to exploit their fellow men and women. The Workers’ International should make one of the first objects of its propaganda the entire sweeping away, root and branch, of this system of international mischief-making and spying. Unless we do so, there will be no sanctuary in the world for revolutionists or even reformers.
Had the present iniquitous system and laws been in force fifty years ago, Mazzini, Marx,
