That there is ground for indignation we do not deny.
But we have no hesitation in saying that the method adopted by the agitators is the very best possible to secure a confirmation of the sentence on Miss Malecka. They simultaneously call on the Government to interfere by diplomatic moans and do their utmost to create a state of public opinion which paralyses diplomacy. In their attacks on Russian methods they forget that they are attacking the Russian nation. Or do they forget it P There are moments when we are almost driven to believe that the militant pacificiets who support Miss Malecka are actuated less by righteous indignation on her account than by desire to make her the stalking-horse of their invincible animosity towards Russia and the Anglo-Russian Agreement, the entente with France, and the entire foreign policy of Sir Edward Grey. This invincible animosity is reinforced by the invincible ignorance of those advocates of the new diplomacy who in the phrase of a "Lover of Justice" in last Saturday's .Daily Chronicle bid " the British people come out in their millions and tell Sir Edward Grey what to do."
Previous page
