- We are sorry to see that the Daily Herald
supports the proposal that when Signor Mussolini comes to London to sign the Locarno Pact, Labour leaders should cold- shoulder him and that locomotive drivers should even refuse to drive his train. We hold no brief -for Signor Mussolini, but we should have thought that it was essential for all men who value international good will to remember that he is the political Head of a nation whose friendship we all value. What is done in Italy could not be done in Britain, but we have no right whatever, even indirectly, to dictate a policy to another nation. Every nation must . be left to manage its own affairs. The Daily Herald furiously resents any snubbing of the agents of the Russian Soviet, whom it happens to like, but encourages snubbing of the most elaborate kind for Signor Mus- solini, whom it happens to dislike.
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