24 DECEMBER 1927, Page 18

Dr. Haden Guest writes with an inside knowledge of the

Labour Movement, and in Where is Labour Going? (Cape, 5s.) tells us very clearly and forcibly how the extremists of his late party are ruining it. Its practical incapacity will turn the electorate away from it, in his opinion. "But what the country will not stand from the Labour Party, it will not stand from other parties either. The chaos of misdirection in the coal industry, the urgency of the clearance and rebuilding of the slum areas" are some of the questions to which the nation will demand practical answers. We agree with Dr. Guest.