THE ZINOVIEFF LETTER
WHAT LABOUR WANTS TO KNOW HOW COPY WAS OBTAIN CD. (Frees Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON. March 8. “ We never had any intention of allowing the Zinovieff scandal to sleep for ever, but the reopening had to be handled with discretion. The francs case report simply played into onr hands, and just did what we wanted.” said Mr Ramsay MacDonald in an article in the Socialist paper Forward. He says: '* I recently warned my friends that the political plot involved would never be solved by proving the letter a forgery. It would be still worse to tell how it was forged, and who helped in the forgery, because it would involve libels for which apologies would have to be given and damages paid. What we had to clear np was who got the copy of the letter, either before or simultaneously with the Foreign Office. AVe must rigidly confine ourselves thereto, and refrain from making statements that can be blown sky high.”—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20354, 10 March 1928, Page 11
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