Mr. Arthur Henderson, it was announced on Wednesday, has gone
on an important mission to Russia, and has been replaced in the War Cabinet by Mr. George Barnes, another very able representative of Labour. Mr. Henderson's great personal influence among British Trade Unionists will be missed in these critical times, but he will, with M. Albert Thomas, the French Socialist Minister of Munitions, represent the Western Allies most efficiently at Petrograd, where Labour and Socialism now control the Provisional Government. Mr. Henderson and M. Thomas would not be where they are if they had not shown themselves practical men of alTaire as well as idealists, and they will do Russia a service if they can help her new rulers to translate their idealism into action. Fine sentiments are not enough, as Brissot and his fellows found to their cost in the Revolution of 1789.
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