identity under assumed Russian or Polish names, it became known that the principal ones were: Nahamkez—Steklov, Apfelbaum—Zinoviev, Rosenfeldt—Kamenev, Goldmann—Gorev, Goldberg—Mekowski, Zederbaum—Martov, Himmer—Sukhanov, Krachman—Zagorski, Hollander—Mieshkowski, Lourier—Larim, Seffer—Bogdanov. Among the leaders of this gang—under Lenin—were: Trotzky, whose real name was Bronstein, and Feldmann, alias Chernov.”12
In the well-known French periodical L’Illustration, issued September 14, 1918, an article appeared under the title “Petrograd under the Commune,” from which we reproduce the following extract:
“The Masters of the Hour.
“The Bolshevist Movement and the Jews of Russia
“When one lives in contact with the functionaries who are serving the Bolshevist government, one feature strikes the attention, which is that almost all of them are Jews.
“I am not at all anti-Semitic but I must state what strikes the eyes: everywhere in Petrograd, in Moscow, in Provincial Districts, in all commissariats, in district offices, in Smolny, in the former ministries, in the Soviets, I