RELIGION IN RUSSIA
TREATMENT BY SOVIET
HENDERSON'S INQUIRIES
British Official Wireless. .. , RUGBY, stli March. The Eight Hon. A. Henderson, Foreign Secretary, was asked in the House of Commons whether he could make a statement now in relation to the report which he had received from the British Ambassador at Moscow regarding religious persecution in Eussia. He replied: "I have now .had an opportunity of considering the Ambassador's report, and I have reached the conclusion that to lay the report on the table, or to publish ai^y statement based thereon, would create an undo-' sirable precedent and would not be in the interest of the public .service. But as I intimated to the House op Monday, I am laying on the table a White Paper containing a translation of the decree of Bth April, 1929, regulating the practice of religion in Soviet Eussia." Mr. Henderson emphasised that he was making all the inquiries in his power. < Beplying to a further question, Mr. Henderson said that he had received from the Secretary of the Baptist World Alliance particulars regarding eleven Eussian Baptists reported to be exiled or imprisoned in the Soviet Union. He was at present making1 inquiries into this matter.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 56, 7 March 1930, Page 9
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199RELIGION IN RUSSIA Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 56, 7 March 1930, Page 9
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