24 APRIL 1926, Page 2

This reverse to the I.L.P. is significant, for much hid

been hoped for by the adherents of the new I.L.P. policy which is partly to secure an international " united front," and partly to damage Mr. Ramsay -MacDonald's authority and substitute for his evolutionary patience the policy of " Socialism in our time." Significant, too, is, Mr. MacDonald's pointeil praise of Mr. J. H. Thomas who is perhaps the most convinced of all the Labour evolu- tionaries. At Cambridge last Saturday, Mr. MacDonald said that he could not be too grateful to Mr. J. H. Thomas who was " one of the finest men I have ever met in my life or ever wish to meet on earth or in Heaven." - * * * *