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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18238, 24 November 1924, Page 9

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RUSSIAN TREATIES.

STERN NOTE TO SOVIET.

DUPLICITY AND PROPAGANDA. (BT CiBLE—PKISS ASSOCIATXaS—COPXWaaT) (BKCTEB's TKLEOIUMS.) (Received November 23rd, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, November 22. Tho Foreign Office, in a Note to M Rakovsky. says tli&b after due deliberation, his Majesty's Government is unable to recommend the treaties signed on August Bth to the consideration of Parliament or to submit them to the King for ratification.

A separate Note to M. ltakovsky retarding tho Zinovieff letter says that M. Itakor&ky undertook to declare, apparently upon internal evidence alone and without allow ing time for reference to Moscow, that the Zinovieff letter was a gross, forgery, in support of which M. Rakovsky alleged that the Communist International was never, iu its own circulars described as the Third Communist International, that Zinovieff never signs sis President of the executive committee of tho Communist International, and that the whole contents av® a tissue of absurdities. Mr Austen Chamberlain says His Majesty's Government- cannot accept, these assertions which o.re disproved by reference to official publications and the Soviet Press.

The Noto continues:; —"But it is unnecessary to enter into details because the information in possession of His Majesty's Government leuvei no doubt in their mind of the authenticity of tho Zinovieff lotter, therefore they nro net. prepared to discuss tho matter. You misapprehend tho character of t-lio representations of my predecessors if you supposed tliey doaJt with M. Zinoviefl's let tor only, i'he activities of which liu Majesty's Government complain are not confined to tills particular letter, but extend to tho whole body of re-, volutionary propaganda, of which the letter is «. fair specimen, which sometimes is conducted secretly and sometimes, as you rightly remark, is unconcealed. The pronouncements of Zinovieff, broadcast, throughout tho world, are in themselves sufficient evidence of propaganda in which tho Third International, with tho knowledge of the Soviet Government, continually indulges, and this system, in tho view of His Majesty's Government, is inconsistent w:ith tho solemn undertakings of your Government in tho Noto of October 24th to Mr Ramsay Macl>onald.

Mr Chamberlain observes that nobody who understands the constitution and | relationships of the Communist International will doubt its intimato connexion s;nd contact with' the Soviet Government. He further observes that "No Government can ever tolerate ail arrangement with a foreign Govern- | ment by which'the latter is in formal diplomatic relations of a. correct kind with it, whilst at tho time a prop:'.gand'isni body . organically connected "with that foreign Government, encourages, even orders, subjects of the former to plot and plan revolutions for its overthrow. This is true, and the Soviet Government will do well to weigh carefully tho consequences ol ignoring this pronouncement." The "Daily Herald" commenting on the Note to the Soviet, says tho Govcrflment is anxious to hush up the Zinovieff letter, but the Labour Party will insist upon a complete clearing up of its,mysteries and the exposure of the fraud by which the election was won at the price of provoking an international crisis.