But the undoubted patriotism of the British workman has every time saved the situation.

While a danger point does lie here, there is no reason to be more fearful now than at any preceding time when no especial trouble was brewing.

This wave of gossip and fear has no right to sweep over the country now.
Labour hopes and expects and is preparing to win the next General Election--whether with good reason or not I cannot guess.

But most men expect it to win the Government at some time--most of them _after_ the war.

I recall that Lord Grey once said to me, before the war began, that a general political success of the Labour Party was soon to be expected.
Another wave which, I hear, has swept over Rome as well as London is a wave of early peace expectation.