I handed over on
this occasion to our secretary, Camille Huysmans, an appeal to the
democrats of the entire world, in which the Executive Committee
indicated clearly its position in the questions of the world war
and of agrarian reform, and vindicated its place in the Workers'
and Socialist International family.
I must also present to you the author of this report. The citizen
Rakitnikov, a member of the Russian Revolutionary Socialist party,
has worked for a long time in the ranks of this party as a
publicist and organizer and propagandist, especially among the
peasants. She has known long years of prison, of Siberia, of
exile. Before and during the war until the beginning of the
Revolution she lived as a political fugitive in Paris. While being
a partizan convinced of the necessity of national defense of
invaded countries against the imperialistic aggression of German
militarism--in which she is in perfect accord with the members of
our party such as Stepan Sletof, Iakovlef, and many other
voluntary Russian republicans, all dead facing the enemy in the
ranks of the French army--the citizen Rakitnikov belonged to the
international group.
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