Labour Pursues Zinovieff Affair
FOREIGN OFFICE SCANDAL “PLAYED INTO OUR HANDS” By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright. Reed. 11.5 a.m. LONDON, Thurs. “We never had any intention of allowing the Zinovieff scandal to sleep for ever, but its reopening had to be handled with discretion. * “The Foreign Office francs case report simply played into our hands, and just did what we wanted,” says the leader of the Labour Party, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, in an article in the Socialist paper, “Forward.” “I recently warned by friends,” he goes on “that the political plot involved would never be solved by proving the letter a forgery. It would be still worse to tell how it was forged and who helped in the forgery, because it would involve libels for which apolo gies would have to be given, and damages paid. “What we had to clear up was who got the copy of the letter either before or simultaneously with the Foreign Office. We must rigidly con- ; fine ourselves to that point, and rei frain from making statements that [can be blown sky high.”—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 299, 9 March 1928, Page 1
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