PROPAGANDA PLEDGE

Hokitika Guardian, 3 January 1930, Page 4

PROPAGANDA PLEDGE

“THE TIMES’S” ALLEGATIONS.

[United Press Association. — By Electno Telegraph.—Copyright.]

LONDON, January 2,

The. Government has not had to wait long to test the Soviet Government’s good faith ((says the Times), which is giving attention to a flagrant piece of Bolshevist propaganda, namely the “Daily Worker’s” publication o£ n* message from the Presidium of the Communist International in which this new paper is described as ‘ a new powerful weapon in r the hands of the British working class in its . fight against Capitalism and the Social-Fas-cist Labour Government.” The Times emphasises that before the appointment of the Ambassadors and the recent exchange of assurances this message might have been dismissed merely as ,a typical example of Bo- j shevik meddling in another country’s affairs, but, in the circumstances, it becomes far more important. The Times recalls that both Mr MacDonald and Mr \ Snowden have admitted there is a close relationship of the Soviet Government with the Communist International. It continues: If there fore the Communist .International consists of persons under the direct or indirect control of the Soviet Government, then this act of the Communist International is an open breach of the pledge which was given less than , a fortnight ago. The Times adds: Mr Henderson hwi asserted as a fact that the Soviet Government has pledged itself to restrain the Communist International propaganda. It is now his turn tyb act, and with a directness that shall prevent all possibility of any misunderstanding in Moscow.