CLEARLY KNOW RUSSIAN GOVT. GAVE MONEY, DECLARES BIRKENHEAD.
BRITAIN MAY BREAK OFF ASSOCIATION WITH SOVIET, UNLESS HER POLICY CHANGES.
By Telegraph.—Press Association. —Copyright.—Reuter’s Telegrams. (Received June 21, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, June 20. An even more forceful speech than Mr Churchill's anent Russia was uttered by Lord Birkenhead at Luton. “We clearly know that the funds supplied to the British miners came from the Russian Government,” he said, “ and know the motive which led the Russian Government to send them.” He added: “Unless we observe signs of a change it will be necessary to decide whether it is well-advised to retain any degree of association with a country whose avowed purpose all over the world is to undermine the historical greatness of Britain.” Mr Ramsay Macdonald, at London, described the Government attitude as one of “the meanest and most contemptible stunts.” He said that the Russian Trades Unions subscribed handsomely to aid the women and children, but people whose minds were haunted by ghosts said that the Russian Government was doing it, because it had sworn to overturn the British Government.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17878, 21 June 1926, Page 1
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