1 NOVEMBER 1924, Page 2

The Foreign Office protest is quite firm, and is explicit

in making it clear that foreign revolutionary propaganda will not be tolerated here. Mr. MacDonald might have got some credit for this, but in reality, the demonstration that the Russian Communists with whom the Treaty was negotiated are not a jot changed by anything that has happened recently, has undoubtedly done the Labour Party much harm. The average electors have not gone in for subtleties but have simply said, " We do not like these people and the less we have to do with them the better. It seems that the Treaty was a silly mistake."