Propitious Propinquity

Both the Communists and the Nationalists (Monarchists) have a common enemy—the Socialists. It has been common knowledge for years that the two parties were slowly drifting together. Nevertheless all Berlin was startled to read in Die Rote Fahne, Communist daily, articles from Karl Radek, Soviet Government's able propagandist, and Count von Reventlow, apostle of the ex-All Highest.

The alarm felt, particularly in Socialist circles, was undoubtedly accentuated by memories of the Spartacan Rebellion of 1919 and the Kapp Putsch of 1920, the one Communist, the...

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