In the House of Lords on Thursday, February 14th, Lord
Charnwood called attention to a point which we have already mentioned in the Spectator, namely, the divided allegiance of some members of the present Government who are at once Ministers of the Crown and members of the International Socialist Conference at Hamburg. It is provided by the constitution of that Conference that its decisions shall be supreme over all purely national decisions. It will be remembered that when Mr. MacDonald became Prime Minister, those members of the Government who were also members of the Executive of the Hamburg Conference resigned their positions on that Executive. The Executive, by the way, has its headquarters in London, and it has been commonly mid by British Socialists that a distinctly British twist would be given to all the decisions of the Conference.
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