[20] Believed by many to have been managed by the police in order to sow dissensions and cause divisions in the ranks of the anarchists.
[21] In Russia, where many of the most violent propagandistes par le fait are men of letters or scientists, the situation is quite different.
[22] Reclus’ daughters have entered into union libre openly with their father’s entire approval. A man of Elisée Reclus’ standing would not aid and abet such a course without profound conviction.
[23] A strike of pick-and-shovel labourers, to supervise which the government hurried 75,000 soldiers into Paris, although there were no signs of violence.
[24] Certain anarchists hold that it is proper for an anarchist to penetrate into the unions, so that he does not preside at their formation nor hold office therein,—an attitude which is amusingly analogous to that of the scrupulous Episcopalian dame who drew the line of the permissible in Lent just this side of white kid slippers.
[25] Communist-anarchists, in spite of the word Socialistes in their title.
[26] Vaillant threw a bomb in the French Chamber.
[27] Bresci killed King Humbert of Italy.
[28] Estimated in France officially, and hence conservatively, as 40,000.
[29] Special laboratories, with walls constructed to minimise the force of a shock were erected at this time at four different points in Paris,—Montrouge, Aubervilliers, Berey, and Le Point du Jour.