Then Mr. Lansbury goes on to state in prominent type
that the Daily Herald has had no Bolshevik paper. If he treated for Bolshevik paper, as he admits, and has not up to the present received any, it is impossible to understand why he should imagine it to be a virtue on his part that no Bolshevik paper has yet arrived. As Mr. Lansbury goes on incoherence becomes still more incoherent. He accuses the British Government of " deliberately spying upon and revealing the private corre- spondence of the diplomatic agents and representatives of a Power with whom it is negotiating commercial relations." Mr. Lansbury does not seem to be acquainted with the nature of wireless receiving stations. The air all round us is filled with international messages. When a receiving station in any part of the world gets a questionable message from Russia, it is not the fault of those who are doing their customary work at the stations, but the fault of those who sent the message. And what is all this talk about spying upon diplomacy ? Surely Mr. Lansbury has talked himself hoarse and written himself tired about the necessity of open diplomacy—diplomacy in which there should be no secrets and nothing should be withheld from anybody.
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