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February 24. -- It was 3 a.m. In the Foreign Office correspondents were about and visitors come by appointment with Chicherin. The People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs has turned night into day.
I found Chicherin at a desk in a large, cold office, an old shawl wrapped around his neck. Almost his first question was "how soon the revolution could be expected in the States. " When I replied that the American workers were still too much under the influence of the reactionary leaders, he called me pessimistic. In a revolutionary time like the present, he thought, even the Federation of Labor must quickly change to a more radical attitude. He was very hopeful of revolutionary developments in England and America in the near future.