The profound abhorrence with which the British people regard the
Bolsheviks was reflected in the House of Commons on Wednesday, when members of all parties followed Mr. Edwards in denouncing the suggestion that we should recognize Lenin and his gang. The Labour Members spoke as strongly as the rest against negotiations with murderers. Even Colonel Wechp wood, whoa professed to disbelieve the reports unfavourable. to Lenin, felt it necessary to say that he was not a Bolshevik. The. Home Secretary in-reply assured the House that the British Delegates-in Paris had had no proposals from-Lenin, and that the atoryof a Bolshevik offer of fair terms was a piece of German propaganda and wholly untrue. Mn'Shoat added that, he wae, deporting the' Bolshevik -agents. from this eountry7 where-they had received little encouragement.
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