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Mr. Lloyd George, in a speech at Camberwell in support of the Liberal candidate, Dr, MacNamai said that the Moscow mystery had caxt a very sinister light on the Government's refusal of an inquiry the Campbell casey The oreign Office, of which Mr. Ramsay MacDonald was the head, "aid that the Zinovieff document' was: genuine, bat all Mr. MacDonald's Ministers said that it was a forgery. He did not know why they said that before they made inguities. Tt looked to him ax though the docu-had been withheld from the bluet Ministers. accepted the Soviet denial, the fact that when he was Prime Minister the Soviet had denied a similar transaction when he had hi Positive proof of it; namely, Moscow stating that he had di pored of the Russian jewels and we the "Daily Herald" £75,000. therefore he could not oseow's denial as he would have accepted the denial of any Later.
With reference to the statements that the Zinoviel? letter was known to Mr. Ramsay MacDonald and Mr. Henderson nearly three weeks prior to its publication, Mr. Henderson to-day declares that no such doeument was received by the Home: Office or Scotland Yard or by himself personally from any quarter. His first information of the exist-fence of the document was in the columns of a newspaper en October The Premier's Critics London, Oct. 28.
The most serious allegation of! the Premier's critics regarding] Russia was that the Premier had Zinovieft's letter several weeks' ago, and deliberately withheld publication for party purposes.
en's speech has disarmed in regard to this, but otherwise in no way satisfied the opposition press, which caustically refers to the unusual spectacle of a Minister attacking officials of his own - Department, who are not privileged to reply.
For the present, everybody is: content to relegate the authenticity of the Zinovieff letter itself to the background, but. the utmost party capital is being made out of Mr. MacDonald's Russian policy.
The Conservatives particularly regard the whole episode as an electoral asset with which to spur apathetic votes to the poll. The Liberals, however, though dissatisfied with the reply, warn supporters not to pay undue attention to the Russian issue rather than to concentrate on the defeat of the Conservatives' protectionist aims,
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