LABOUR ATTITUDE TO SOVIET
“STILL SOMETHING WORTH PRESERVING” LONDON, January 15. Sir Walter Citrine, secretary of the Trades Union Congress, interviewed after his return from the conference of British and French trades unions in Paris, said, he had been asked whether he thought Britain should declare war on Russia. He had replied “No,” feeling that it would be unpopular, especially with the Labour Party. Thousands of Britons felt, in spite of recent happenings, that there was still something in the Russian revolution which was worth preserving.
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Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22919, 16 January 1940, Page 7
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