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the  rise  and  fall  of  the  international.  177
seem  to  bear  out  this  opinion.  A  certain  number  of  Internationalists ­
  figured  among  the  members  of  the  Commune,
notably  Amouroux,  Avrial,  Beslay,  Dereure,  Frankel,  Malón’
Bindy,  Varlm,  Serailler,  Theisz,  and  Vaillant  ;  but  they  had
joined  It  on  personal  grounds.  The  ties  which  bound  the
different  sections  of  the  International  together  were  too  lax
for  the  requirements  of  revolutionary  action.
hrom  the  official  reports  of  the  proceedings  of  the  Inter
national  during  the  siege  of  Paris  and  the  Commune,  I  glean
the  following.  In  the  sitting  of  the  15th  of  February,  ,871,
Frankel  said,  “The  events  since  the  4th  of  September  have
dispersed  the  International.  We  have  still  a  certain  moral
t^e  w-in,"?*  ”  8“'''“'')'’  in  Paris;  but  for
the  want  of  organization  we  lack  material  force.  Many  mem-7
  f  ?,  ^ntsp  the  aim  of  the  association.”  On  the