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e S t a f nd a - 7. "A second stage in the historic preparation for this revolution was a broad mass ferment which assumed the form of a split in the official parties, the form of illegal publications and of street demonstrations. The protest against the war grew - and the number of victims of govern- mental persecutions also grew. The prisons of countries famed for their lawfulness and even for their freedom, Ger- many, France, Italy, England, began to be filled with scores and hundreds of internationalists, opponents of the war, advocates of a workers' revolution". - 20th October 1917. Collected Works, Vol. XXI, Book I, p. 271. ne コー D is of ns 1 - of JOHN MACLEAN - SOVIET CONSUL "In 1914, the International collapsed because the work- ers of all countries united with the bourgeoisie of their respective countries and split among themselves, but now this split is becoming healed. Perhaps you have read rec- ently that in England the Scottish school teacher and trade unionist MacLean, has been sentenced a second time to im- prisonment for five years - the first time he was sentenced to eighteen months - because he exposed the real objects of the war and spoke about the criminal nature of British imp- erialism. When he was released there was already a repres- entative of the Soviet government in England, Litvinov21, who immediately appointed MacLean Consul, a representative of the Soviet Russian Federative Republic in England, and the Scottish workers greeted this appointment with enthus- iasm. The British government has for the second time comm- enced to persecute MacLean and this time not only as a Scottish school teacher, but also as Consul of the Federat- ive Soviet Republic. MacLean is in prison because he came out openly as the representative of our government, but we have never seen this man, he has never belonged to our Party, he is the beloved leader of the Scottish workers, but we joined with him, the Russian and Scottish workers united against the British government in spite of the fact that the latter buys Czecho-Slovakians22 and is pursuing a furious policy to drag the Russian republic into the war". - 28th June 1918. Concluding Speech at 4th Congress of Trades Unions, Collected Works, Vol. XXIII. (in fact 3 years hard labour of which he served 15 months)
