ABSTRACT
To study the “popular Press” on the Russian Revolution of March 1917 or on the American declaration of war against Germany shortly afterwards is to become markedly aware of the full meaning of the phrase, “blind leaders of the blind”. Hardly an instance is to be found for months of a warning to the nation that the Russian Revolution could bring great profit to the Germans. And as the long-term consequences of Henderson’s subsequent dismissal proved singularly important in the history of British party development, a little attention to the immediate circumstances seems justifiable. As Secretary of the Labour Party, with his hands on an important and growing political machine, Mr. Henderson was to prove a more dangerous enemy than the tricky Prime Minister doubtless supposed.
