On Monday the " Council of Action," not content with
trying to diotate to Great Britain, sent Mr. Adamson and Mr. Gosling to Paris in order to incite French workmen to Direct Action. The French Government courteously permitted them to lunch with their Socialist friends on Tuesday, and then asked them to go home. As they were really trying to promote revolution in a friendly country, where the Socialists attempted a general strike only last spring, Mr. Adamson and Mr. Gosling had no reason to complain that their stay was cut short. The Daily Express correspondent gave an amusing account of the British delegates' interview with the Syndicalist leaders, for whom he acted as an interpreter. The logical Frenchmen wanted to know whether the British " Soviet " was really as powerful as it pro- fessed to be. Mr. Adamson anxiously protested against the use of the word " Soviet," but said that they were not afraid of Mr. Lloyd George. The more moderate Socialist leaders showed little enthusiasm for the British delegates' suggestion of another general strike. They knew that it would be a failure.
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