Approaches to the great settlement . Incident. In England too therewere ministerial difficulties over the matter. It hadbeen expected that the Labor Party would declinethe invitation, which would make it unnecessary forthe Prime Minister to refuse a passport to his col-league, Mr. Henderson. These expectations proved to be incorrect. A 1 See pp. 79-8a. 2 The British Labor Party is affiliated with the InternationalSocialist Bureau. It has for some years been committed to So-cialism by vote of its annual Congress and it is practically theregular socialist party of Great Britain. Its membership i
Approaches to the great settlement . Incident. In England too therewere ministerial difficulties over the matter. It hadbeen expected that the Labor Party would declinethe invitation, which would make it unnecessary forthe Prime Minister to refuse a passport to his col-league, Mr. Henderson. These expectations proved to be incorrect. A 1 See pp. 79-8a. 2 The British Labor Party is affiliated with the InternationalSocialist Bureau. It has for some years been committed to So-cialism by vote of its annual Congress and it is practically theregular socialist party of Great Britain. Its membership includesnot only Socialist organizations like the Independent Labor Party(6o,ooo members), the Fabian Society (strong not in numbers,which it has never sought, but in influence) and the less importantBritish Socialist Party (membership 20,000): it also includes, as avery important part of its membership, trade unions and co-operative societies whose constituents are not all socialists. It hasthirty-seven members in Parliament. [104]. Photo by Paul Thompson ARTHUR HENDERSON Conference of the Labor Party was held August the leadership of Henderson the conferenceof 600 delegates, casting votes proportioned to theirconstituency, voted 1,046,000 to 550,000 to acceptthe invitation. This was, however, on conditionthat the Conference be consultative, not manda-tory. Russias Attitude Toward Stockholm. Lloyd-Georgethereupon indignantly accused Henderson of bad faith, andof suppressing the information that the attitude of theRussian Government toward Stockholm was very differentfrom what had been supposed. It was widely representedin the press that there has been a recent and material changein Russian opinion. These allegations brought out from Kerensky himself, un-der date of August 16, the following statement as to theStockholm Conference: I think it is of great importance, although personally Ithink it would have been of greater importance if it had takenplace while we were adv
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