13 AUGUST 1921, Page 2

The Soviet has been too busy slaying men, women, and

children for imaginary crimes against its foul and sodden Elatism and mumbling its ancient and putrid sophisms to give any attention worth having to transportation. It could, of course, at any moment have got help by giving up its intrigues against its neighbours, and its farcical attempts to produce a world-wide Communistic revolution by pouring its ill-gotten diamonds into the lap of the Daily Herald—a paper which in the last resort repudiated the " nasty things " as quite unfit for the neck of a respectable British matron of the Socialist variety.