To understand the full importance of the'hiarm that this trial will do in Great Britain certain facts must be realized, The chief of these is the exact difference between the Loft wing of Labour and the Communist Party. Communism's impotence in Great Britain was largely caused by its absurd claim that it was possible to win the dominance of Great Britain by an armed minority of militant workers or by, some other form of "Direct Action." 'The common man knew better, although he might find the idea consoling when workless and half, starving. The practical revolutionaries in' Great' Britain are not u's of this calibre. They pin' their hopes on the inbred constituional habit of mind that character-
The popular anti quickly realized when the tri ed that the Reds were profit by it. After the first day the accounts of it were more and more condensed, although it excited enormous public interest in Great Britain, And when the defence opened its case it was difficult to find any mention of the trial in many newspapers with a pronounced anti. Labour tone and a largo cireul tion, "as the.whole of, the "day's, proceedings were condensed into half dozen lines hidden on some out-of-the-way page. But the Communists have already got verbatim accounts of the speeches of the Communists into the workshops in pamphlet form, and they-are getting more careful attention than any Communist literature has previously had. If only the Communists are far-secing enough to drop the more senseless of their avowed" tactics they now have the opportunity of Duilging up a dangerous anti-Capitalist party.
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