I do not see how a British switch from alliance with Stalin to alliance with Hitler can be any tragic defeat for ‘democracy.' It is a smashing blow to a communist state and to communists as a party and as an international conspiracy-a blow to conspiracy because it will create further dissension in it. But if this alliance is a triumph for Fascism, then the British alliance with the Czar was a triumph for Czarism, and the one with Stalin was a triumph for communism.