[Footnote 2236: Lacretelle, "Dix Ans d'Epreuves," 80.] [Footnote 2237: Mathieu Dumas, "Mémoires," II. 88 (Feb. 23).--Hua, "Mémoires d'un Avocat au Parliament de Paris," 106, 121, 134, 154. Moniteur, XIII. 212 (session of July 21), speech by M.---"The avenues to this building are daily beset with a horde of people who insult the representatives of the nation."] [Footnote 2238: De Vaublanc, "Mémoires," 344.--Moniteur, XIII. 368 (letters and speeches of deputies, session of Aug. 9).] [Footnote 2239: Hua, 115.--Ibid., 90. 3 out of 4 deputies of Seine-et-Oise were Jacobins. "We met once a week to talk over the affairs of the department. We were obliged to drive out the vagabonds who, even at the table, talked of nothing but killing."] [Footnote 2240: Moniteur, XII. 702. For example, on the 19th of June, 1792, on a motion unexpectedly proposed by Condorcet, that the departments be authorized to burn all titles (to nobility) in the various depots.--Adopted at once, and unanimously.] [Footnote 2241: Later Stalin and his successors should invest the United Nations and other international organizations to indirectly propose and ensure the acceptance of a new convention of human rights, children's rights, the rights of refugees etc. In many cases these became the base of national legislation which is now giving trouble to many of the Western democracies. (SR).] [Footnote 2242: Hua, 114.] [Footnote 2243: Moniteur, XII. 664.--Mercure de France, June 23, 1792.] [Footnote 2244: Hua, 141.--Mathieu Dumas, II. 399: "It is remarkable that Lafond de Ladébat, one of our trustiest friends, was elected president on the 23rd of July, 1792. This shows that the majority of the Assembly was still sound; but it was only brought about by a secret vote in the choice of candidates. The same men who obeyed their consciences, through a sentiment of justice and of propriety, could not face the danger which surrounded them in the threats of the factions when they were called upon to vote by rising or sitting."] [Footnote 2245: This description and others of the same period have undoubtedly been studied carefully by thousands of socialists and political hopefuls who, in any case, made use of similar tactics to take over thousands of governing committees, institutions and organizations. (SR).] CHAPTER III. I.--Policy of the Assembly.--State of France at the end of 1791. Powerlessness of the Law.