SOVIET TREACHERY?

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 861, 3 January 1930, Page 9

SOVIET TREACHERY?

NEW PAPER STARTED TO FIGHT CAPITALISM CHARGE OF BROKEN PLEDGE Times Cable. LONDON, Thursday. “The Times” says \he British Government has not had to wait long in order to test the Soviet Government’s good faith. It calls attention to a flagrant piece of Bolshevik propaganda, namely, the publication in the “Daily Worker” of a message from the presidium of the Communist International. This message describes the “Daily Worker” as “a new and powerful weapon in the hands, of the British working classes in their fight against capitalism and the Socialist-Fascist Labour Government.” “The Times” emphasises the fact that before the appointment of ambassadors by Britain and Russia, and prior to the recent exchange of assurances, this message might have been dismissed merely as a typical example of Bolshevik meddling in another country’s affairs. But in the circumstances it becomes far more important. The article recalls that the Prime Minister, Mr. MacDonald, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Snowden, have both admitted the close relationship between the Soviet Government and the Communist International. If, therefore, the latter consists of persons under the direct or indirect control of the Soviet, this act of the International is an open breach of the pledge given less than a fortnight ago.

“The Times” adds:—“Mr. Arthur Henderson, Foreign Secretary, has asserted as a fact that the Soviet Government pledged itself to restrain the propaganda of the Communist International. It is now his turn to act, and to do so with a directness that shall prevent all possibility of a misunderstanding in Moscow.”