Russian Proposal to Remove to Moscow Strongly Resisted by Communist's Grandson 'M. Jean Longuet, the senior] descendant of Karl Marx, the apostle of Communism, has addressed the following letter to the British Prime Minister:
My dear MacDonald,—I have learned by the Press that the Soviet Government delegation now stay ing in London had approached the British Home Minister with a proposal of the Russian Government! to transfer to Moscow the remains of my grandfather, Karl Marx, buried since 37 years in the Hampstead Cemetery.
In the name of my brothers and sisters, as well as for my own sake, as only heirs of Karl Marx, I want to raise the most definite and en-ergotic objection to any proposal of the kind.
Karl Marx has rested since 1883 in London, near his beloved wife Jenny, near his life companion and friend Helene Demuth, near my youngest brother Harry Longue, in most positive wishes, When, after the great defeat of the working class all over Europe in 1848, he ame to the British shores as a political refugee, he found a safe asylum in this "mother of exiles—London." For more than 40 years he had lived in close contact with the British working class, and found in this country the sei of his great book, "Capi His fundamental conception was that Soci ization could only grow in the more economically and industrially developed countries of Occident. 'I am sure that he would at the present time have followed with the deepest sympathy the efforts and realizations of the first t Labour Government that the id has seen and which you pre-over with so much loyalty, devotion, and skill. T do not think that Marx would have accepted, whatever may have been his general sympathy for the great revolutionary upheaval of the Russian people, that his remains, his memory, should be monopolized by the present Russian type of Communism.
All his writings are indeed imhued with a deep mistrust of Rus-methods, of the Russia of the di Tsar also of the Russia of Bakou "That he would have admired the marvellous fighting qualities of Lenin and his great devotion to the cause of world's revolution I do not doubt for a moment; but nobody has the right to say that he would have admitted that his achievements were inspired by the Marxian philosophy.
The most positive desire and will jot all the heirs of Karl Marx is that remains, should not be removed from Hampstead, but that they should remain in the noble soil of the great English Labour democracy—Belove me, my dear MacDonald, most fraternally yours, Jean Loncuer.
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