CRITICISM OF THE TORIES
MacDONALD’S VIEWS ON RUSSIA
By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Feb. 7, 10.10 p.m. A. and N.Z. Berlin, Feb. 7. “You Germans handled the Russian question far more cleverly than the Eng lish Tories,” says Mr. Ramsay MacDonald in an interview with the London correspondent of the Berlin newspaper, the Tageblett. “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 was absurd. Then the Tories broke off relations with Russia. If they had not she would have now 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,” he continued, “it would mean a tremendous advance in International politics. The year would show what could be done. Even if we fell then we would leave behind such good work that our successors would inherit several Locarnos.” into line.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 February 1928, Page 7
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