Since the death of Aristide Briand, the greatest orator in the French language is considered by most Europeans to be Emile Vandervelde, elderly President (leader) of the Second (Socialist) International.
Though a Belgian (he has several times been Foreign Minister) Socialist Vandervelde was in Paris last week when he launched an attack on the Third (Communist) International, particularly condemning Moscow's doctrine that "the present is the last crisis of Capitalism, inevitably to be followed by the World Revolution of the World Proletariat."
"In this preaching of catastrophe," smiled Emile Vandervelde, "they multiply quotations tending...
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