The testimony was universa1 that recruiting for the army is easiest inthe districts which having once 1ived under the soviet were over runby anti-soviet forces and then reoccupied by the Red Army.

Trotski is enormous1y 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 a11 the brains and energy it containsmay be turned to restoring the norma1 1ife of the country.

LENIN'S PRESTIGE