The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-20

AdCuI. LIS USli5l III Parliamentary
possibilities was even more pro.
nounced in his attitude towards the
labor government of Great Britain
Generally speaking, Comrade Lore
maintained benevolent neutrality to-
wards Macdonald, considering his
government an interesting expert
ment," praising it for what Comrade
Lore considered good actions, mildly
criticising it for its hesitation, and
spreading the illusion that the gov
eminent of the Second International
had genuine wish to serve the inter-
ests of the working class but that it
was thwarted by the opposition of
the liberals who held the balance of
power between the conservatives and
iaborites. In an editorial of January
"a, Comrade Lore writes:
I'VE do not believe it necessary to
emphasize at this point that every
labor party and labor paper meets
the new British government with
great sympathy, even, when, as is
the case with Communist parties and
papers, they are from the very be-
ginning of the conviction that w
have to deal here with nothing bu
an experiment which in addition i
being undertaken with entirely in
sufficient and united means"
Having thus outlined his attitud
OF great sympathy" towards tn
Macdonald government, Conrad
Lore proceeds to find favorable indi-
cations in the first steps Of the new
government Commenting on the re-
lease of Ghandi, who was freed by
the new government after signing a
declaration Of renouncing the strug-
gle, Comrade Lore writes:
Here also the British prime min
lister conducts policy which would
like to sneek between two extremes
without offending either. In this.
however, the prime minister. who
surely means well, will not succeed
1T is not only a question of freeing a
couple of political prisoners or to
warn against excuses. The British
labor party government will have to
decide to declare itself either for or
against the British imperialist policy
We know very well that the
labor party government can not help
but follow in the imperialist paths
trodden by Lloyd George, Asquith.
Baldwin, ETC., otherwise the liberals
will Immediately tighten the moose
whose end they hold in their hands.
This being the case, the labor party
men in the government should at
least keep their mohtus shut on such
questions, as long as they insist on
exercising power which is based on
the good or bad will of the capitalist
politicians"
This rather pessimistic remark
seemed to indicate that Comrade Lore
had its doubts as to the possibilities
OF radical course of the so-called
labor government. However, subse-
quent articles showed that Comrade
Lore was rather inclined to praise the
activities of the new government.
Commenting on MacDonald's discus
sion of foreign problems with invited
press correspondents. Comrade Lore.
an editorial of Feb. 16, 1924, put what
he calls ''the open diplomacy" methods
OF Macdonald on the same level as
the methods of the Soviet Republic.
The article says in part:
Soviet Russia had to conquer the
confidence of the labor world and
thus put the possible capitalist peace
breakers in the wrong before the rest
of the world. 1t is therefore that
Tchicherin published all notes sent by
him to the powers and all diplomatic
papers. and it is therefore that it was
impossible for the political clowns
in high public and state positions to
spread suspicion against the foreign
policy of the Soviet Republic. Just
the same is at present being aspired
to by Macdonald. We do not put too
great hopes on the success of Mac
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