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- Yes!

I know,

but can you tell me what he's saying?

- I lived there four years.

- Really? What's he...

What is he saying?

Can you tell me what he's saying?

He says don't strike.

He says it's not right

to leave our Russian soldiers

at Front without guns.

You are a long way from New York.

He says that our Russian

soldiers at the Front

are also strike.

That is why they're leaving the Front.

What's that?

He said that the workers of England,

France and America

will be left alone to fight Germany.

Tell him he doesn't know

how many workers

in England, France and America

are against the war.

You lived in New York. Tell him that.

You are right, American.

Go ahead, you speak.

Go ahead.

Tell them about your American workers.

No, I can't speak here, I don't have

any credentials to speak here.

- I'm an American...

- Credentials? What credentials?

Everyone has credentials here.

He ask you to speak.

Speak. I translate.

I only want to say that if you strike,

the American workers

will not feel betrayed.

They're waiting for your example.

They're waiting for your leadership.

If you refuse to support

the capitalist war machine,

they will follow your example.

And if workers of the world

stand together,

the war can be stopped.

They support you

and will join you in revolution!

Then, comrades, come rally

And the last fight

Let us face

The Internationale

Unites the human race

Then, comrades, come rally

And the last fight

Let us face

The Internationale

Unites the human race

That's how it goes.

Porter!

Confiscate it.

I'll take it with me to Washington

on Wednesday.

On whose authority?

The authority of the Attorney General.

All right, pack it up.

- Attorney General?

- Attorney General of the United States.

That's upside down.

- Louise!

- Max!

How are you?

Max. Hi!

Hi!

Oh, God, Louise. You look good!

God, whatever you've been doing,

you ought to bottle it.

Oh, thank you.

He's gonna write a great book, Max,

and I'm gonna lecture while he's doing it

so we can have something to live on.

And he's gonna write

wherever I'm lecturing.

And then we're gonna go back to Croton

and he's gonna help me edit

my collection of articles

on women in the Revolution,

and then we're gonna help

edit each other's books.

No more separations.

We've really promised each other, Max.

We're really going to get down

to living our own lives.

It's so moving.

God, Max, you should've been there!

Well, they took my notes.

Every goddamn note I have for my book.

Can they do that?

Welcome home. Let's go.

Come on, come on.

We'll get your notes back.

You'll write your book.

A lot's been happening. Now what

the hell is going on here, Jack?

I understand you and Louise

have decided to be happy?

It's a very difficult situation

for a country who is conducting a war,

when one of its allies has a revolution

and the government is changed.

The thing that made the furor

was that the Russians withdrew,

and we lost an ally.

We thought the Russians

had gone back on us.

The Bolshevik Revolution, at the time,

was the most single striking

event in the history of the times,

of the whole era.

The complete transformation

of Russian society,

and the taking over

by the peasants and the workers

of the machinery of the state.

It never had happened before in history.

You're a grand old flag

You're a high flying flag

And forever and e'er may you wave

You're the emblem of

The land I love

The home of the free and the brave

Every heart beats true

For the red, white and blue

Where there's never a boast or brag

Should auld acquaintance be forgot

Keep your eye on the grand old flag

Over There is not till 1918.

Over there, over there

Send the word, send the word

Over there

That the Yanks are coming...

You know that one.

But the other one

after Grand Old Flag,

or before, was

I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy.

I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy

Yankee Doodle...

Real live nephew of my Uncle Sam

Born on the 4th of July

I've got a Yankee Doodle sweetheart

She's my Yankee Doodle joy

Yankee Doodle went to London

Just to ride the ponies

I am the Yankee Doodle boy

That was a big hit.

- Do you believe in God?

- I beg your pardon?

It's a simple question, Miss Bryant.

Now do you want me to repeat it?

I'm sorry, for a moment I thought

you asked me

if I believed there's a God.

That is precisely what I asked you.

I see. Well, I have no way of knowing.

Are you a Christian?

I was christened in the Catholic Church.

- Well, are you a Christian now?

- I suppose I am.

Do you believe

in Our Lord Jesus Christ?

I believe in the teachings of Christ.

Am I being tried for witchcraft?

Miss Bryant, tell me,

are there no decent, God-fearing

Christians among the Bolsheviks?

Does one have to be God-fearing

and Christian to be decent?

Senator, the Bolsheviks believe

that it's religion, particularly Christianity,

that's kept the Russian people back

for so many centuries.

- Miss Bryant...

- lf any of you'd ever been to Russia

and seen the peasants,

you might think they had a point.

On the subject of decency, Senator,

the Bolsheviks took power

with the slogan, "An end to the war."

Within six months, they made good

their promise to the Russian people.

Now, the present President

of the United States of America

went to this country in 1916,

on a "no war" ticket.

Within six months,

he'd taken us into the war,

and 115,000 young Americans

didn't come back.

If that's how decent,

God-fearing Christians behave,

give me atheists anytime.

By the way, Senator Overman,

in Russia, women have the vote,

which is more than you can say

for this country.

Miss Bryant,

do you advocate a Soviet government

for this country?

No. In this country

I don't think it would work.

In other words,

you mean the Red scare?

They got scared, or we got scared?

No, we didn't get scared.

They were afraid that the unions

would grow in strength.

A radical movement in America.

They were scared.

Oh, sure.

The Americans, they were frightened

to death by it, you know.

That it could occur here.

Sure. Everybody was in mortal dread

of the government descending on them.

The FBI or whatever it was,

don't you know.

We had to expose them.

And once they told American people

what Communism was...

People won't have nothing to do

with Communism now.

They know what it is.

But then, they didn't know.

It was a new thing.

Public opinion was

solidly against anyone

who had a good word

for the Russian Revolution.

But Louise was always communicating

what she had experienced.

I brought blankets, here,

and a heavy coat, here.

Chase and Sanborn.

Gloves.

Thank you, Jack.

Everyone else brought me hats.

And Louise sends you her best and this.

A scarf. Very kind.

I'm afraid your time is up.

Well,

we're going to keep fighting this.

Will you tell Max I'd like a picture

of myself in the magazine?

And under it, I would like the words,

"Deported in 1919.

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