FOREWORD
by

The Rt. Hon. Lord Newton, P.C.

~ Y HEN our Labour Government, at the
VV bidding of their more extreme supporters,
 determined to resume diplomatic
 relations with the Soviet, it seems probable
that they failed to foresee the full consequences
of this disastrous folly. They could not possibly
have been under any illusions as to the political
hostility of the Soviet Government, because, far
from practising concealment, the Bolshevik
chiefs have never lost an opportunity of expressing
 their hatred of this country, or of stirring
up trouble for us in every part of the world.
They have made it perfectly clear in fact that,
in a political sense, they regard the British
Empire as their most formidable adversary. All
this must have been obvious to evervone except
to the wilfully obtuse.
The Labour Government, however, probably
never realised that the Bolshevik political campaign
 against us would be supplemented by an
industrial attack which, if successful, would go
far towards undermining our economic position,
and Dr. Luboff’s able summary of the facts is an
endeavour to awaken the British public to the
danger of what is known as *“ Soviet Dumping.”
We are proverbially regarded as an unimaginative
 race, and it is doubtful whether more thana
small section realise the tremendous industrial