Definition: In this task, you're given a statement and three sentences as choices. Your job is to determine the neutral choice based on your inference from the statement and your commonsense knowledge. The neutral choice is a sentence that neither agrees nor disagrees with the statement. Indicate your answer as '1', '2', or '3', corresponding to the choice number of the selected sentence. If sentence X agrees with sentence Y, one's correctness follows from the other one. If sentence X disagrees with sentence Y, they can not be correct at the same time.
Input: Statement: Despite the emperor's obsession with the new  Red Peril  ' the 1848 Communist Mani?­festo of Marx and Engels, which was being circulated in Paris ' he could not prevent such social reforms as the workers' right to form unions and even to strike. Choices: 1. The emperor could not prevent the formation of unions. 2. The emperor supported social reforms including the formation of unions. 3. The emperor was upset by the social reforms.

3