The Archive · 1927

Soviet and League of Nations

Unwilling to Assist Imperialist

Machinations Moscow, Nov. 13..

The Soviet World Congress concluded to-day after adopting a reslation to appeal. to. sympathizers!

struggle for the liberation of oppressed peoples, primarily the Tu the course of a long conversation with members of the inter. rational delegations that attended the Congress which included. China, Comrade Stalin, replying to enquiries, said that the Soviet had not Joined "the League of "Nations, because they did not wish to assume responsibility for the Imperialist] machinations for which the League was merely @ screen.

He explained that the reason a Social Democratic party was not permitted to exist in Russia, was because it had become the party of] open counter-revolution. It had sided with Koltchak and Denikin fand had favoured. restoration of capitalism and abolition of the dictatorship of the proletariat.

Comrade Stalin emphasized that} the bourgeoisie could at present not hope for freedom of the press but] claimed that no other State atforded such freedom for the proletariat, The official Tams Agency states that party organizations throughout Russia have adopted resolutions] urging immediate exclusion from the party of Comrade Trotsky, Zinovieff and other opposition leaders and their release from their

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