THE RUSSIAN QUESTION

Grey River Argus, 9 February 1928, Page 5

THE RUSSIAN QUESTION

English Tories’ Tactics. MACDONALD’S INTERVIEW WITH GERMAN PRESS. BERLIN, February th. “You Germans handled the Russian question far more cleverly than the English Tories,” says Mr MacDonald in an interview with the'Berlin r Tageblatt’s London correspondent. “It was my policy at the Foreign Office to help Russia back into line with the Labour Movement of the rest of the world, but the Tories shrieked that I was seeking to bring revolution into England, which js absurd. Then the Tories broke off relations with Russia. If they had not she would how have been on the threshold of the League of Nations. If the forthcoming elections on the Continent resulted in a series of governments of the Left, it would mean a tremendous advantage in International Politics. The year would show what could be done, and even if we fell, then we would leave behind such good work that our successors would inherit severa! Lflearafig,