The Morning Post of Monday published an interesting letter from
Mr. George Nicholson, till lately a member of the Com- munist Party of Great Britain, which letter we take to be typical of the desirable state of feeling that found expression in the municipal elections. Mr. Nicholson says that, after much study of Socialistic philosophy, he has come to the conclusion that any attempt to apply it by force "could result only in fiasco." "Any attempt," he writes, "at the assumption by force of the control of industry on the part of the workers would immediately bring about violent conflict and fail under bloody and primitive suppression. Russia has taught us that, in the present state of civilization, only a semblance of Communism can be applied." Mr. Nicholson concludes that things being as they are. Capitalism is "the best instrument to the hand of progress," and he states his intention of henceforth opposing by every means the machina- tions of "those who form the forces of destruction."
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