Herr Friedrich Adler, the Secretary of the Labour and Socialist
International, takes the report of the British Trades Union delegation to Russia, and points out very acutely the inconsistencies and blindnesses and partialities of which it is full. His pamphlet, The Anglo-Russian Report (P. S. King and Son), is written in anger and exasperation : as a good Socialist he is shocked to see how the delegates make excuses for Imperialism and political tyranny so long as they are Russian and not English. Their confusion, or duplicity, he puts down to their insularity ;4, they have two standards, he asserts, " one for Britons, who ' never shall be slaves,' another for the ' natives,' for the inhabitants of foreign countries, for whom other social institutions, from servitude to slavery, are naturally ordained and are also entirely sufficient." And he quotes, to parallel their haste in forming conclusions, the anecdote of an English lord who, visiting the Continent for the first time, arrived at Ostend, and as he took his first breakfast entered in his diary : " On the Continent the waiters have red hair."
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