Mr. Henderson did not really solve the mystery why he
had withheld the vital communication from the Russian Government, unless we may regard as an explanation his statement that he was speaking in his capacity as Secretary of the Labour Party. Of course, if the dual appointments which Mr. Henderson held as a Labour official and as a member of the Cabinet necessarily involved such an extraordinary isolation of the compartments of his mind, such duality would be finally condemned, even for the abnormal purposes of war time, and must never be repeated. We arc strongly inclined to agree with the Prime Minister that if the delegates at the La'oceir 'Party Conference had understood that the Government of Russia, -though it did not feel able to stand in the way of the Stockholm Conference, no longer regarded it as necessarily helpful, the results of the Labour Conference would have been very different.
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