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No doubt Mr. Appleton can substantiate these words. They are

a most damaging allegation: If it be true. that Mr. Williams speaks with one voice in Holland because he wants an inter- national job, and with another voice in England, he ie obviously not .e man to be trusted. But Mr. Appleton makes another extraordinary statement with regard to the resolution of the Portsmouth Congress condemning the Government for refusing to allow Russian Trade Union delegates to enter this country. He declares that the Congress never inquired who these delegates were or to what Trade Unions they belonged. Mr. Appleton, however, who is a statistician. and an adept at verifying biota, did make inquiries.