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Riga, Aug. 13

A delegation of English won Communists has arrived at L

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Another of the delegation, d cribed as Landish, praised hospitality of the Russian Co munists and proceeded to extol Red Army, which the delegati had seen. Defining the Co munists' attitude to war, she sa she was a member of the Ar War League, but that did mean that she was a pacificist, that she was against war in g eral. "We stand for war," said, "if the war is to be agai capitalists. We understand fu that without such war it is possible to obtain power."

According to another speal of the name of Wilson, if Engl capitalism were not afraid of volution breaking out at ho war against the Union of Socia Soviet Republics would have b declared long ago. She admit that the English Communist pa was not numerous, and that women Communists were few, ral she claimed that their number ac-growing and that the power

the party was extending.

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