COMMONWEALTH: Dissolved

COMMONWEALTH (British Commonwealth of Nations)

Great Britain entered the throes of the third general election in two years.

Sedition. Last August it was brought to the attention of St. Patrick Hastings, Attorney General,* that the Workers' Weekly, Communist journal, had printed a seditious article (TIME, Oct. 13), the headlines of which ran:

SOLDIERS, SAILORS, AIRMEN! WILL YOU KILL YOUR MATES? REMEMBER—YOU ARE WORKERS! THE BOSSES ARE YOUR ENEMIES.

DON'T SHOOT SINKERS ! THEY ARE WORKERS LIKE YOU. THEY ARE FIGHTING FOR A DECENT LIVING FOR THEMSELVES AND THEIR WOMEN AND KIDS. IF THE PROFITEERING CAPITALISTS, THROUGH...

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