14 JUNE 1919, Page 3

We do not believe for a moment that Mr. Gosling

wants to start a Red Terror after the fashion of Lenin, or even to welcomeunrepentant Germans as brothers. The public should learn to make a liberal allowance for some Labour leaders' passion for furious rhetorio. Mr. C. B. Stanton said to the National Democratic Party Conference on Monday : "I was formerly a rebel, but Heaven help the people if they had followed me entirely. I am ono who has lived long enough to profit by his own mistakes." Mr. Stanton won notoriety by his fiery harangues to the Welsh. miners. He sees now that wild denunciations of society are not helpful, and he is honest enough to say so. We commend his example to the reckless rhetoricians like Mr. Gosling.