It is on this matter of effectively supporting one's friends that the Communists out-manoeuvre the Daily Mail." Lansbury makes more Communists in a week than MeManus makes in a month, but to read a Communist paper Lansbury you would think that ho was one of the most dangerous enemies of Communism. Such a public disavowal of such valuable services is their most effective card.
they Aattered and commended him, as the "Daily Express" flatters and commends any Labour leader who works in the Capitalist interest, they would ruin his usefulness. We know several Communists who are much disturbed at Mr. Lansbury's recent appearance on a Communist platform, a decision to. sever his connexion with the "Daily Herald" and start a new weekly of a more pronounced pro-Russian tone. They fear that thi open demonstration of his left sympathies will tend to narrow his sphere of influence in wider circles. 'And those who have inside know-edge of Labour affairs are cognizant of other cases where it is evident that Communist converts are being deliberately kept in their fold organizations because thei value' to the Reds is higher without the Communist label than it would be if they publicly joined the party.
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