Abstract

The Week

The article presents information about various social and political developments around the World. Two French regiments in the Odessa region mutinied last week when ordered to attack the Soviet forces. The French troops were reported to have sent a delegation to their officers, declaring that they were ready to fight for France, but not to fight their brothers. On being told that this was mutiny and that the penalty was death, the soldiers were reported to have answered that they recognized this, but that their decision could not be altered. Karl Marx, a German social philosopher and economist, predicted that Great Britain might be the one nation to achieve a peaceful social revolution. It will not be the fault of the triple alliance if this prophecy proves untrue. With the restraint born of power and sure knowledge of what they want, the miners, railway men, and transport workers press their demands upon a Government that is obliged to listen.