agitators, to criticize the Peace Treaty of Versailles meant an
attack on the Republic and an evidence of reaction, if not of
monarchist tendencies. The moment one uttered the first
criticism of the Versailles Treaty one could expect an immediate
reply, which became almost stereotyped: 'And BrestLitowsk?'
'BrestLitowsk!' And then the
crowd would murmur and the
murmur would gradually swell into a roar,
until the speaker
would have to give up his attempt to persuade them. It would be
like knocking one's head against a wall, so desperate were these
people. They would not listen nor understand that Versailles was
a scandal and a disgrace and that the dictate signified an act of
highway robbery against our people. The disruptive work done
by the Marxists and the poisonous propaganda of the external
enemy had robbed these people of their reason. And one had no
right to complain. For the guilt on this side was enormous. What
had the German bourgeoisie done to call a halt to this terrible
campaign of disintegration, to oppose it and open a way to a
recognition of the truth by giving a better and more thorough
explanation of the situation than that of the Marxists? Nothing,
nothing. At that time I never saw those who are now the great
apostles of the people. Perhaps they spoke to select groups, at tea
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