Week
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contributor: Blakemore, William
issued: 2017-03-21
issued: 1917-10-06
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note: The Week H British Columbia Newspaper and Review Vol. XV, No. IX—15th Year Victoria, B.C., Canada, October 6th, 1917 5c a copy $2.00 a year Russia NOT tlie lenst of Britain's blunders during the great world-war was hoi' tactless refusal of passports to those desiring to attend the now fnnions Stockholm Conference. The full extent of that disaster cannot yet be fully estimated. It is indeed doubtful if it will ever be known. But if it can be even approximately guagccl by the quantity of wreckage then is it safe to argue a disaster of tho first magnitude. The first result of that refusal was the withdrawal from the Ministry of Arthur Henderson, the trusted representative of Labour. The second result, flowing naturally from the first, was the alienation of the sympathies of the great toiling masses in the Old Country. And the third result has been the detachment of Russia from the cause of the Allies. Many persons, chiefly those of the old-fashioned Tory school, view with perfect equanimity the departure of Henderson from the war-cabinet. They argue, and with perfect truthfulness, that he lacks the education, the training and the ability for the efficient discharge of the onerous duties of high office. But a somewhat similar charge could with equal truthfulness be levelled against Lords Milner and Curzon—two of his colleagues. These indeed may not .lack education but. they do lack ability and their training is such as to unfit them for high office in a democratic country. Milner is a Prussian by training and instinct, and Curzon is tho pampered child of an aristocratic school. At the back of Henderson stand the millions of the industrial nrmy upon whose activities the success of the war depends. At the back of Milner and Curzon stands the handful of privileged plutocrats whose activities during the past twenty yenrs made the great world war possible. Lloyd George did not choose any of these men for their outstanding merit. He chose Henderson because of the confidence i…
note: Publisher changes in chronological order: publisher not identified (1904-1906) ; The Week Publishing Co., Ltd. Offices (1906-1907) ; �The Week� Publishing Company, Limited (1907-1918) ; publisher not identified (1918-1920)
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Victoria (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0374083
language: English
lat: 48.428333
long: -123.364722
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Victoria : "The Week" Publishing Company, Limited
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text