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y t.he government against the Internat.ional Association of Workers." Henry<br />

Fougere, Les Delegations ouvri€res aux expositions universelles sous le second<br />

empire (MontlUf;on, 1905), p. 75. <strong>The</strong> first great meeting in London drafted a<br />

declaration of sympathy for the liberation of the Poles. [G7a,3]<br />

In the three or four reports by the worker delegations who took part in the world<br />

exhibition of 1867, there are demands for the abolition of standing armies and for<br />

general disarmament. Delegations of porcelain painters, piano repairmen, shoemakers,<br />

and mechanics. See Fougere, pp. 163-164,. [G7a,4]<br />

1867. " Whoever visited t.he Champ de Mars for the first time got a singular impression.<br />

Arriving by the central avenue, he saw at first . .. only iron and smoke . ...<br />

This initial impression exerted such an influence on the visitor that, ignoring the<br />

tempting diversions offered by the arcade, he would hasten toward the movement<br />

and noise that attracted him. At every point . .. where the machines were momentarily<br />

still, he could hear the strains of st.eam-powered organs and the symphonies<br />

of brass instruments." A. S. de Doncourt, Les Expositions universelles (Lille and<br />

Paris

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