It now seems quite obvious that the Soviet Government—really wishes to obtain access to documents which, in the opinion of the Che-Ka, may provide information regarding the activities abroad of loyal Russians who embraced the cause of the White Forces. These documents would provide the Moscow butchers with a new excuse for wholesale executions, and the persecution of all relatives of persons involved in what the Communists call "counter-revolutionary" efforts.
For this reason Rakovsky appears to be particularly insistent on, gaining access to the archives of the Consulate-General, where no documents of any political significance or value have ever been kept, but where records of Russian citi-zeus, who have refused to become subjects of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, and continue to use registration' and nationality certificates issued by the Russian Refugees' Relief Committee, may be perhaps found.
M. Onou, on being informed by the Foreign Office that, in the opinion-of the British Government, should hand over all his archives to Rakovsky, refused to do so,
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