NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 25 October 1924

25 OCTOBER 1924

An amazing letter from the Presidium of the Executive Committee of the Communist International, Moscow, to the Central Committee of the British Communist party, has come into the hands of the Foreign Office. The letter gives instructions to British Communists as to how to bring about a revolution. The Foreign Office has written to the Chargé d’Affaires of the Soviet Union stating that His Majesty’s Government cannot allow such propaganda, and must regard it as a direct interference from outside in British domestic affairs.

Professor Charles Sarolea, in an article on Bolshevism in the Labour movement, shows the close connection which exists between Russian Bolshevism and British Socialism.

Lord Balfour, speaking at Haddington, denounced the policy of the Government with regard to Imperial interests.

Viscount Younger, speaking at Annan, said the choice before the electors was Constitutionalism or Socialism. If the electors wanted a stable Government and wanted to avoid annual elections, let them vote for the Unionist party, the only party which could have a majority. Socialism meant tyranny and the sinking of our freedom.

Lord Birkenhead addressed a Unionist demonstration at Aberdeen.

Sir Robert Horne, addressing the Hillhead electors, said the great questions which previously divided Conservatives and Liberals had for the most part disappeared, and today the differences between them were almost inappreciable in comparison with the great abyss that separated both of them from the creed of Socialism.