London, May 13.
Congratulatory comments by the foreign press on the calling off of, the British strike are freely expressed, Both French and American journals recognize that the principle has been established that no comdination of unions can dictate to Government.
The New York "Times" says that} the great lesson of the futility of a general strike has now been leart ed not only for Great Britain, but for all civilized nations.
I'Echo de Paris" deciares that at one stroke, from one end of Europe to the other, all subversive elements have been given a severe setback.
"L'Eve Noxvelle" says that the British Government has not acted ax a strike-breaker but as a destroyer of civil war.
French Labour organs do not to dwell upon the fact that the economic problem as a whole still remains unsolved—Reuter.
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