English Translation

- 14 - 31 and the corresponding press bulletin for the illegal and outwardly legal disguised communist propaganda work. The "Workers' and Peasants' Party" consisted of 52 members of the Chamber, who sent a letter to Hérr i ot, in which, after the war in Poland, they glorified Russian politics and the annexation of Poland, propagated the basic seats of the Comin- terns and demanded the immediate peace agreement with Germany with regard to their position on the war. This letter was the reason for the French government to take strong measures against the CPF, including the members of the Chamber, of which 4o were arrested. All these measures of regulation could not prevent the KPP from initiating and perpetuating a large-scale propaganda activity without taking into account the heavy penalties imposed by the government. The illegal organisation had been brought up by the Tripartite Grouping system and had crossed the whole of France by a network of tripartite groups, which received their dictionaries from the foreign refugees of the KPF. Flyers and posters with a communitarian tendency were distributed and beaten in industrial centres and a lively word of mouth and whispering was carried over over. The content of the entire propaganda activity in word and writing was the demand for the immediate cessation of the tormenting.