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1917] THE ARMY OF TREACHERY 485
young people—of a type that had absolutely nothing
Slav about it—singing and dancing the trepak very
ostentatiously on the platform before their carriage
door. The faces of the dancers were completely at
variance with the typically national Russian dance
and the whole thing looked like intentional parade.
At that minute one of the members of the " Emigrants’
Committee," with whom I had had to discuss the help
lent by the Legation, came up to me. " Do you see—
those are all our young people who are rejoicing over
their return to Russia," he said with a malignant smile.
" Your Excellency may rest assured that they are going
there for the greater well-being of the Russian people."
And the smile became more malignant, more triumphant.
At this same time also my wife, returning from
meeting an ambulance-train, told me that in it, besides
the usual wounded men, there were some very
suspicious-looking individuals, well-fed, well-dressed,
and who passed themselves off as Ukrainian medical
officers. The wounded complained of the conversation
of these men, who scoffed at all that they held dear and
who foretold a good peace with Germany at no distant
date. The real wounded wished to draw the attention
of the military authorities at the frontier to these people.
Soon after and little by little the Russian ambulance
trains assumed a completely different aspect. From the
German side they were making use of them to pass into
Russia not wounded men but soldiers who had
undergone skilful preparation in special camps, and who
were to swell the ranks of the "friends of peace" in
Russia.
These ranks continued to swell. The army of
treachery was forming. Only the headquarters staff was
wanting. That arrived at last from Switzerland, via
Germany, in the persons of MM. Lenin, Trotsky and
others. When they passed through Stockholm—I did
not see them—they did not conceal from the Swedish
Socialists and interviewers their intention of preaching
the conclusion’of peace at any price.
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