A meeting was held in. Trafalgar Square on Sunday last
to protest against the execution of Senor Ferrer. Mr. Victor Grayson, M.P., made an outrageous speech attacking the- Foreign Secretary and the King, and a demonstration outside the Spanish Embassy was only prevented by the resolute intervention of the police. Mr. Cunninghame Graham having attacked the Labour Party for their inaction, Mr. Keir Hardie, M.P., retorted with a letter in Monday's Daily News, in which, after vindicating the attitude of the Labour Party, he violently attacks Sir Edward Grey for failing to intervene on Senor Ferrer's behalf. "A word from him would have made the committal of the crime impossible." As he made no sign, and gave no hint to Spain, Mr. Keir Hardie con- tinues :—" Was the Foreign Secretary particeps criminis by his inaction in this crime which has horrified the world? If he -was, what will his party feel, and say, and do? That is now the question. We must make sure our own skirts are not bespattered with Ferrer's blood." This letter, be it noted, was printed in the Daily News without a word of editorial remonstrance.
