Finally, we cannot help pointing out that in accepting help,
in whatever degree, from Russia to run a newspaper Mr. Lansbury has committed exactly the sin which he is always charging against his Capitalistic opponents in politics. Only the other day some Labour members abused Mr. Walter Long because he is the owner of some shares in a Russian conapany. That ownership, they said, entirely unfitted him for helping to decide questions of peace and war with Russia—he was a prejudiced person. What, then, shall we say of the position of Mr. Lansbury ? He boasts that he and his friends decided the question of peace and war with Russia, and all the time, though he did not tell us so, he was receiving assistance from the Russians. He was a prejudiced person. Indeed, if Mr. Long was a suspected witness, Mr. Lansbury ought not to have dared to put his head inside the Court.
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