The meeting at Liverpool shows that we are now entering
a period where a. great deal of this convenient but dangerous and sometimes discreditable vagueness will have to be swept away. The Communists have forced the issue of revolution versus evolution, and the evolutionaries will now have to admit that evolution must be as gradual as evolution always is. There is no short cut to the millennium. If the existing system were suddenly swept away there would be a terrible break-down and a gap filled with human misery and 534 violent recrimination to which our history would provide no parallel. We are thankful to say that the ablest 535 Labour leaders at Liverpool have at last taken their 535 courage in both hands and spoken unequivocally. They are in favour of following the constitutional way, the way of democracy, the method of keeping the decision in the hands of the majority. We cannot praise too much the speech in which Mr. Cramp stated this issue on 547 Tuesday.
