The testimony was universal that recruiting for the army is easiest inthe districts which having once lived under the soviet were over runby anti-soviet forces and then reoccupied by the Red Army.

Trotski is enormously proud of the army he has created, but it isnoteworthy that even he is ready to disband the army at once if peacecan be obtained in order that all the brains and energy it containsmay be turned to restoring the normal life of the country.

LENIN'S PRESTIGE