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If we were to judge by language alone, and were

able to forget for the time being that political language must be related to deeds, we could not praise too highly the speeches which the Prime Minister made on Tuesday about our Russian policy and on Wednesday about the future of the mines. The Russian part of the Prime Minister's speech on Tuesday was a masterpiece of common-sense. By eliminating what was unpractical be arrived at a very simple conclusion as to what was practical, and laid great stress, as we have ourselves ventured to do, on the humanizing effect upon the tyrannical Russian ideologues of trading with the outer world. We cannot have fresh wars ; and if we cannot bring Russia back to a normal state of mind by trading with her, we at all events,know of no other way.

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