Some of the ''moderate" Labour leaders who are members of the "Council of Action" appear anxious to remove any suggestion of attempting to set up the Soviet system in this country, a Special Correspondent writes to the "Morning Post." Mr. Clynes and Mr. Hodges have stated that thie Council is only temporary, and will cease to exist when the present crisis is over. But the people who are pulling the strings behind the scenes have no intention of letting this Soviet lapse when the present pretext for its existence is no longer effective, Behind the "Council of Action' we have pro-Germans and Bolshevists, and their avowed purpose is something greater and more serious than mere opposition to war wil Bolshevist Russia. The militarism of Soviet Russia is endorsed by the dictators of the Labour Movement because, if successful, it will further their ulterior designs, The main objective of these people is to destroy the Entente, and particularly to break up the Anglo-French Alliance—an alliance that is detested by every anti-British faction at home and abroad. The Alliance with France is a serious obstacle to the realization of the aims of both the pro-German and the Bolshevist.
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Leaving the consideration of the proposals of the Bolshevist section, let us see what the Pacifists are e: pecting from this Polish crisis hey find in the French Note a nouncing the recognition of General Wrangel the beginning of the end of the Entente. This naturally—gives them much pleasure. Mr. Philip Snowden, in the "Labour Leader," August 19, after remarking on the Note and on the Italian recognition of the Soviet Government, writes:
This rupture of the Alliance has been foreseen by those who have long been convinced that the maintenance of the Anglo-French Alliance was incompatible with a just and permanent settlement of the European problem.
Mr. Robert Dell, late Paris Correspondent of the Manchester Guardian," writes in a similar tone in a series of articles in the Socialist paper "Forward." In the issue of August 14 he has an article headed "Break with French Militarism Mr. Dell says:—
Wo must not be content with stopping the (Polish) war. When it has been stopped we must insist trot our Government shall break with French Militarism. A campaign should organised with that object all over the country.
This attempt to break the Entente becomes more evident in a further article by Mr. Robert Dell in Forward, August 21. The article is headed "Away with the Imperialist Entente," and refers to the misunderstanding between M. Millerand and Mr. Lloyd George, and Mr. Dell assumes,
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