From 1937 I completely cut myself off from this “movement” and wrote to Sneevliet: “This isn’t a beginning, it’s an end.” But I abstained from any controversy and tried to render any services I could to the militants and to L. D. Ugly stories, like the Trotskyists’ attempt to lay hands on funds belonging to the POUM, sickened me (a special commission, made up of Rosmer,* Lazarevich,* and Hasfeld straightened the affair out with great difficulty). The grand and noble movement for which we had given so many lives in Russia degenerated overseas into impotence and sectarianism. I continued to
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