28 AUGUST 1920, Page 2

What would an ordinary straight-dealing man do when he discovered

that the people with whim he had entered into "a, business transaction ".had been secretly using that transaction to deprive him of all his independence ? Surely he would say that he had been groesly deceived-and imposed upon by tricksters, and that he would have nothing more to do with them. He would, moreover, be extremely anxious to inform the whole world of what had happened in order to prove that his hands were clean. We have yet to learn whether Mr. Lansbury has come to the only possible decent conclusion—that it is " im- possible to go on with people like this." If be is innocent, then the Bolsheviks are guilty. Why does he not say so Does he mean to go on collaborating with dishonest men ?