ZINOVIEFK LETTER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19892, 10 March 1928, Page 11

ZINOVIEFK LETTER.

LABOUR PARTY'S INTENTIONS. REPORT OF INQUIRY WELCOMED. A. and N.Z.-Sun. LONDON. March 8. In the course of an article published in the Socialist paper Forward the Leader of the Labour Party, Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald, says: "We never had any intention of allowing the scandal concerning the Zinovieff letter to sleep for ever, but the reopening of it had to be handled with discretion. The recent report concerning the currency gambling by Foreign Office clerks simply played into our hands, and did just what we wanted. " I recently warned my friends that the political plot involved would never be solved by proving that, the letter was a forgery. It would be still worse to tell how it was forged, and who helped in the forgery, because it would involve slanders for which apologies would have to be given and damages paid. " What we had to clear up was, who obtained the copy of the letter, either before or simultaneously with its receipt by the Foreign Office. We must rigidly confine ourselves to this point, and refrain from, making statements that can be blown sky high."