m, the media and the administration. They may be years
in doing this, placing convinced or controlled men and women, first in
the faculties, later in career post, so that they, 30 years later, have
their people on all leading posts; or they may do it all at once, like
the Jacobins in France, Lenin in Russia or Stalin in the conquered
territories after the second world war. (SR).]

[Footnote 3302: Duvergier, "Collection des lois et decrets," decrees
of Sept. 22 and Oct. 19, 1792. The electoral assemblies and clubs had
already proceeded in many places to renew on their own authority the
decree rendering their appointments valid.]

[Footnote 3303: The necessity of placing Jacobins everywhere is well
shown in the following letter: "Please designate by a cross, on the
margin of the jury-panel for your district, those Jacobins that it will
do to put on the list of 200 for the next quarter. We require patriots."
(Letter from the attorney-general of Doubs, Dec. 23, 1792. Sauzay, III.
220.)]

[Footnote 3304: Petion, "Memoires" (Ed. Dauban), p. 118: "The justice
who accompanied me was very talkative, but could not speak a word of
French. He told me that he had been a stone-cutter before he became a
justice, having taken this office on patriotic grounds. He wanted to
draw up a statement and give me a guard of two gendarmes; he did not
know how, so I dictated to him what to say; but my patience was severely
taxed by his incredibly slow writing."]

[Footnote 3305: Decrees of July 6, Aug. 15 and 20, Sept. 26, 1792.]

[Footnote 3306: Decree of Nov. 1, 1792.--Albert Babeau, II. 14, 39, 40.]

[Footnote 3307: Dumouriez, III. 309, 355.--Miot de Melito, "Memoires,"
I.31, 33.--Gouverneur Morris, letter of Feb. 14, 1793: "The state of
disorganization appears to be irremediable. The venality is such
that, if there be no traitors, it is because the enemy have not common
sense."]

[Footnote 3308: "Archives Nationales," F7, 3268. Letter of the municipal
officers of Rambouillet, Oct. 3, 1792. They denounce a petition of the
Jacobins of the town, who strive to deprive forty foresters of their
places, nearly all with families, "on account of their once having been
in the pay of a perjured king."--Arnault ("Souvenirs d'un sexagenaire"),
II. 15. He resigns a small place he had in the assignate manufacture,
because, he says, "the most insignificant place being sought for, he
found himself exposed to every kind of denunciation."]

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