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...Labor Party, a post which he resigned in 1914 when the Laborites refused to follow him in his pacifist policy; throughout the War he was energetic in trying to stir up trouble, he became one of the most unpopular men in Parliament, he tried to go to Russia???the ship's crew went on strike, he tried to go to Stockholm to meet the Bolsheviki?the Government refused to grant him passports; he became a political nonentity in 1918 and did not regain his seat in the House until the 1922 elections when he became Chairman of the Parliamentary Labor...
...Russia???"Our Government offers no objection to the carrying on of commerce by our citizens with the people of Russia. Our Government does not propose, however, to enter into relations with another regime which refuses to recognize the sanctity of international obligations...
...Russia???no longer famine-stricken, no more a disease focus...
...words Bolsheviki and Mensheviki (bolshinstvó and menshinstvó) are the Russian for majority and minority. The apparent anomaly?the Bolsheviki being an actual minority in Russia???is accounted for by the Socialist Conference of Brussels, July, 1903, from which the Bolshevik and Menshevik Parties derived their names...