Lord Davies in the Contemporary explains "The French Plan "
of disarmament, and makes a strong appeal for its serious consideration, especially by our own Government. Lord Passfield picks his words with care in an article on "Freedom in Soviet Russia." He says that the workmen are freer than ours because-they can criticize their managers : he notes, too, their extreme mobility, though this may be curbed by the latest decrees requiring every man to carry a passport. Lord Passfield seems rather doubtful about the existence of forced labour, not merely in the timber camps ; but he admits that there is no liberty of speech or writing for the educated minority ; he is, strangely enough, inclined to accept the Soviet argument that all alike must be subjected to a " delibe- rately planned environment." Mr. R. C. Davison makes a useful comment on " Unemployment Relief" from the ad- ministrative side. Unlike the majority of the Royal Com- mission, he would have but one authority in each district to supervise both public assistance and unemployment assistance, and there is clearly much to be said for his proposal.
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