The Conference had before it • not only the unwieldy
'programme which the Labotir EkeeutiVe had-drawn up • on the instructions of the Blackpool Conference of last year, but a resolution on the subject .of party loyalty . which leapt . out of the brain of the Executive itself: at "the last moment. This resolution is ostensibly aimed at. the - Communists and is tactically necessary and .opportune because the Communists arc ordered to break up the Labour Party, but it may also be• made to•apply -if- the Executive dares—to -Mr. Maxton -and his-fellow members of the Independent Labour Party and to the members of the Minority Movement, all of whom do more harm to the Labour, Party than the Communists can do. Abuse from the Communists is expected, but the words of Mr. Maxton and his friends make deep wounds. There . was a brisk- debate on the resolution, but -it was carried. On _Tuesday after. a speech by Mr. Ramsay MacDonald a very long resolution was adopted condemning the Government's foreign . policy. With some of the condemnation we can agree; but With most of it we cannot. _ There. was a particularly absurd state, ment exalting the Geneva Protocol. as the only way to disarmament, although the. Protocol would. have fastened war upon ifaas a means of maintaining peace,
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