In order that our readers may know exactly what Mr.
Lansbury, the editor of the Daily Herald, hopes may come of the Council of Action, we must quote two or three sentences from an article by him last Saturday. Describing the meeting of the Council at the Central Hall on the previous day, he writes fervently of the glorious arrival of " the Day." Why Mr. Lansbury should choose this phrase which has been consecrated to ridicule and odium by the German use of it we cannot imagine, except that the Labour extremists always seem to fail in humour. " Everywhere we must have a local Com- mittee of Action," says Mr. Lansbury. " I want to see the Committees of Action later on turn themselves into the local authorities representing a national army of Labour, fighting to abolish what, after all, is the cause of all wars—Capitalism."
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