The War Cabinet last week refused passports to Mr. Henderson
and other Labour representatives who wished to go to Switzerland to meet M. Troelstra. The Dutch Socialist leader, it will be remembered, had given Mr. Henderson to understand that the German Majority Socialists accepted in principle the war aims adopted by the Allied Socialists. M. Troelstrs, who is intimately associated with the German Socialists, and has played their game since the outset of the war, may have been raisreported,-but the impression that his message produced on Mr. Henderson's mind was the exact reverse of the truth. Herr Soheidemann and his Party are just as aggressive in their policy as the Pan-Germans; the differences between them and the Party of Admiral Tirpitz are merely verbal, as far as the outer world is concerned. The German Socialists are Germans first and Socialists afterwards. Mr. Henderson would save himself much trouble if he would recognize this elementary fact.
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