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or another who would be called Communists, or who called themselves Communists. If I'm not mistaken, the Third International had been created in 1919. Camille Huysmans, the burgomaster of Antwerp, a wonderful old man who is still alive, and has been a Senator, Premier and everything of Belgium, whom I met in 1945, a magnificent old person, illuminated me with regard to this First, Second and Third International. You were always hearing about it in talk, but I never understood what it was. They were resolutions of the international Communist Party, which apparently sprang up right after the Russian Revolution. The First and Second I don't remember too well, but they had to do with the policy of the Communists the world around. The Third International at Moscow stated that the Communist movement was international, that it's purpose was to overthrow all governments and to establish a Communist state in every country in the world, looking toward an international state. I never really knew what this was all about until M. Huysmans, as mayor and burgomaster, who received me officially in Antwerp, gave me the key to the city, told me what the Third International was. He was very much against it. It had ruined every kind of socialist movement in New York. The reason there





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