FAINSOD LECTURES ON THIRD INTERNATIONALE

In the second of his series of six lectures, Dr. Merie Fainsod, instructor in Government, yesterday traced the origins of the Third, or Communist International through the years 1914-1919. The lecture covered the events from the Basle Conference of 1914 and the Zimmerwald Conference of 1916 to the Moscow Conference of 1919.

The Communist International, a militant organization founded at Moscow in 1919, committed itself to the propagation of revolution similar to that engineered in Russia. Dr. Fainsod emphasized that it resulted from the weakness of the Second International. He stated that its three main purposes were to consolidate the world revolution, to stop the Allies from sending armies into Russia, and to meet the challenge of the Berne Conference in Switzerland, which Lenin thought was reviving the idea of the Second International.