The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-25
BALDWIN awaits
SOVIET REPLY TO
BRITISH ATTACK
Cling Desperately to
Charge About Letter
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Especial to The Daily Worker)
LONDON, Nov. "a. The
Baldwin government is awaiting
a reply from the Russian Soviet
government to the British note
backing out of the AngIo-Rus-
sian treaties. RakoVsky has
declined to discuss the Baldwin
note which again brings up the
alleged ''Zinoviev forgery" The
Baldwin government seems to
be the only party to believe in
the letters authenticity.
Lie in Name Of "HIs Majesty"
The foreign office has declared the
belief that the "zinoviev" letter is
genuine, but is of course, unable to
furnish any proof to satisfy the de-
mand Of the Soviet government Even
the London correspondent of the Chi
cago Tribune admits the letter to be
a forgery.
Austen Chamberlain, Baldwin's min
lister Of foreign affairs, in a note to Ra-
kovsky, declares, despite utter lack
of proof, that information in the pos
session of his majesty's government
leaves no doubt whatsoever in their
mind Of the authenticity of the Tin
oviev letter, and his majesty's gov
eminent are therefore not prepared
to discuss the matter"
Threat AGAINST RECOGNITION,
Rakovsky, the Soviet representative
in London, wrote to the British foreign
office, declaring the Zinoviev letter to
be an ''impudent forgery" and stated
the Soviet government will insist on
an adequate apology and punishment
Of both private and official persons in
volved in the forgery"
The conservative press UNFOLDING
the Ba's u government is praising
BALDWIN atagonistic attitude toward
the Soviet government, which is look
ed on as an attempt to break off the
de jure recognition established by the
labor government with as good grace
as possible.
Fear All Propaganda.
The Baldwin government has form
ally renowned the two treaties con-
Guided with the Soviet government by
Ramsay Macdonald and Arthur Pom
sOnby, the prime minister and for
eign secretary in the labor govern
ment The note on the Zinoviev forg-
cry also took the Communists to task
for failure to check propaganda ac-
tivities of the Communist Internation-
al"
Thus treaties which the two govern
ments had already signed, and which
the Macdonald government had
agreed to submit to parliament, are
cancelled by the Baldwin government.
1t was the Macdonald government
which refused to receive the Soviet
note on the Zinoviev forgery, and
automatically" the Baldwin min
lister of foreign affairs has no know
ledge of the Soviet note.
Macdonald Gave "Helping Hand"
It was, in fact, the Macdonald gov
eminent which objected to the "ac-
tivity of the Communist International
and it was Ponsonby and Macdonald
who laid the basis for the present at
tack on Soviet Russia by the Bald
win government.
In his note of October "a, MacDon-
aid observed that, "No one who un-
derstands the constitution and rela-
tionships of the Communist Interna-
tional will doubt its intimate connec-
ton and contact with the Soviet gov
eminent.
Unity Against Soviet Rule.
mo government will tolerate an ar
rangement with foreign government
by which the latter is in formal diplo-
matte relations of correct kind with
it while at the same time a propa-
ganist body organically connected with
that foreign government, encourages
and even orders the subjects of the
former to plot and plan revolutions
for its overthrow"
Thus Macdonald, whose secretary
OF foreign affairs dispatched the above
note to Soviet Russia, and the Bald
win government, took similar attitudes
toward the Soviet government.