ABSTRACT
Internationalism in the shape of Mr. Wilson’s and Lord Grey’s League of Nations is not, we shall be told, a presently practicable idea: the stern facts of life in a dangerous world forbid a nation or an empire like our own to place its destiny outside the limits of its own control. The division of capitalist forces has served in recent years to retard the evolution of the reactionary movement in this country, not only towards Protectionism but towards militarism, bureaucracy and the general system of the close State. For the full effort of the Unholy Alliance will be directed to enlist the sympathy and interests of labour for this project of a close State. The popular mind will have been saturated with sentiments and ideas favourable to a constructive policy of national defence, Imperialism, Protectionism and bureaucratic Socialism making for a close State under class control with the empty forms of representative government.
