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Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 16153, 1 December 1924, Page 6

In an article in Forward, explaining why he left the Communist Party, Mr J. T. W. Newbold, ex-British M.P., says: "I am convinced that the revolutionary phase has, unless there is a war, passed for a decade or two. It is melodrama, not Marxism, to be preparing for an early revolution and mouthing Its however picturesque phrases when the moment has passed during which it is possible to act. The time has come, in my judgment, to face the unpleasant facts. We have got to say quite frankly the favourable crisis has long gone by. There will be no further revolution in Europe for many a long year." To which an Australian paper adds this comment: "And when further enlightenment comes to Newbold he may arrive at the understanding that where a people have the constitutional means of governing themselves by the will of the majority the 'bloody revolutionists' must necessarily be not only of the minority but that hopeless section of the minority which shirks its political duty and seeks any bombastic excuse to cover its political cowardice."