THE RED POISON OF MOSCOW

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 80, 28 December 1929, Page 25

THE RED POISON OF MOSCOW

EMISSION TO CONTINUE Both the “Izvestia” and the “Pravda” are assuring their readers that the Soviet Government will not restrict tire activities of the “Red”. International in any way as a result of the Anglo-Soviet agreement, and as a matter of fact that institution has just addressed an appeal to the workers and peasants of India exhorting them to greater revolutionary efforts, declaring that the Viceroy’s recent pronouncement and the reference to Dominion status are parts of a plan to increase their bondage, and saying they must therefore reject such advances apd refuse to listen to “the Imperialist lackeys calling themselves the Labour Party.” The newspapers mentioned, and other Soviet organs, expatiate on what they term the “wriggling” of the British Labour leaders, especially Mr. Ramsay MacDonald and Mr. Arthur Henderson, who. they declare, have tackled the difficult tak of trying to convince their political opponents that they have concluded an agreement with the Soviet Union to curb the propaganda activities of the Communist International. In its latest issue to hand, the “Pravda” writes: “Mr. MacDonald asserted in his Guildhall speech that the Soviet Government had entered into certain obligations concerning the Communist International’s propaganda, but it was not true. He also promised to obtain a settlement of debts, but Government have no better chance of settling the questions of debts, propaganda, etc., than had their Diehard predecessors.”