The speeches delivered at the Seventh Congress of the Comintern, and the motions there and then adopted, clearly delineated the international position of Communism today. It is now easy to trace the windings of the spiral shaped action that has been developing for the last eighteen years, and ever since gaining more strength and power to impel the world towards further confusion. The basis of that spiral is the scheme of international relations. The German Empire tenderly welcomed Communism when it was in its cradle ; the Weimar politicians made a precious ally of that youthful prodigy, and availed themselves of this alliance to threaten other nations with the possibility of a German-Sovietic coalition. There was an interval of respite when Hindenburg was elected President of the Reich. The German Government proposed to the French Government (according to the German press reports) to effect a final reconciliation between the two leading countries of the Continent and to cold-shoulder Moscow as the source of universal trouble. But the radical French Government, having no confidence in those obnoxious ” Prussian Junkers,” believed more readily the promises and compliments of the Soviet diplomats. Forgetting the danger of such stratagems, the French Government found it quite fascinating to revenge itself on its antagonists by using their own methods against them.