The article appeared the next morning. Lambert declared himself very dissatisfied with it, and Henri had a feeling that it was being vigorously argued about in the editorial room. That evening, a messenger brought Dubreuilh's letter,. The Committee of the SRL had expelled Perron and Samazelle; the movement no longer had any connection with L'Espoir. It deplored the exploitation, to the profit of anti-Communist propaganda, of facts which could be judged only within the total framework of the Stalinist regime. Whatever their exact import, the CP was today the only hope of the French proletariat, and if one sought to discredit it, it was because one chose to serve the cause of reaction. Henri immediately wrote an answer. He accused the SRL of yielding to Communist terrorism and of betraying its original programme.