4 JUNE 1927, Page 2

* * * * Last Saturday Mr. Maxton, Mr. Lansbury

and several other members of the left wing of the Labour Party took part in a luncheon given to M. Rosengolz, the Soviet Chargé d'Affaires, at the House of Commons. About fifty persons were present. Mr. George Hicks, Chairman of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress, presided. Whatever may be thought about the expediency of dismissing the Soviet representatives, there is no doubt that M. Rosengolz, the chief representative of the Soviet in London, resorted to the disgraceful device of causing anti-British news to be fabricated in China. Surely that is an act which all honourable men should resent. The luncheon was a blunder in both taste and policy. * * * *