24 APRIL 1926, Page 2

The Independent Labour Party met with a rebuff last week

at the meeting of -the Executive of the Labour and Socialist International at Zurich. The I.L.P. dele- gation, headed by Mr. Fenner Brockway, proposed that the Executive should approach the International of Moscow in order to examine the possibilities of an all- inclusive International. Mr. Fenner Brockway's motion was lost and the Executive subsequently passed a reso- lution to the effect that the I.L.P. proposal was " quite devoid of any prospect " and that the only right course Was to wait for the day when a natural end would come to the insane Russian system " under which a single party keeps in its hands the exclusive monopoly of political activity and suppresses Socialist parties by arbitrary methods." *•, *• * *