Mr. E. F. Wise, apparently by arrangement, asked - hether the
decision about Mr. MacDonald was compatible ith the continuance of the friendliest feelings towards in and whether the I.L.P. could still be loyal to him as ader of the Parliamentary Labour Party. The only int the I.L.P. wished to insist upon, as Mr. Wise under- ood the matter, was that it stood for a very definite form of Socialist policy_ and that it was anomalous to be repre- sented at the Labour Party Conference by a delegation containing Mr. MacDonald who was not convinced that the I.L.P. was working on the right lines. Mr. Maxton replied that the I.L.P.'s decision would not prevent the I.L.P. delegation at the next Labour Party Conference from voting in favour of nominations (from other groups) of Mr. MacDonald as treasurer. No one, he thought, wanted to see Mr. MacDonald removed from the treasurer- ship ; the I.L.P. merely wanted to be logically correct in not itself giving him a nomination. Mr. MacDonald, he added, need not fear as Parliamentary leader that there would be any lack of loyalty on the part of the I.L.P. So black, it seems, is a kind of grey, indeed very grey, in fact white.
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