I have seldom seen less excitement at a mass meeting
in Hyde Park than appeared at the May demonstration organized by the Labour movement last Sunday. Every- thing was very orderly, even among the Communist elements which marched at the tail of some of the con- verging processions, and proceeded to hold rival meetings exhorting the workers to form a "United Front" against the common enemy. There was no emotion visible on the faces of the police at the " Down with Trenchard," cries, and one could not but notice that the Communist or I.L.P. boys and girls who shouted" Down with Hitler seemed to be apeing the manners and gestures of the Nazis themselves. How obvious it is that Communists breed Fascists, and Fascists breed Communists. On the official Labour platforms, also, Mr. Lansbury and his friends were denouncing Fascism and the Trenchard Report—and, of course, the Government—in somewhat truculent terms. But no inflammatory effect from these orations seemed to reach the sedate working-class crowd that listened.
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