“A most extraordinary and mysterious business”: The Zinoviev Letter of 1924

Page 111

ANNEXC Facsimile

of the Foreign Office Note to M. Rakovsky, 24 October 1924, signed by J.D. Gregory

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Sir,

I have the honour to 1nT1:te Jour

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to the

.no10sed oopy of a letter whiCh has Deen reoeived by the Central Committee of the British Communiat PartJ Prel1dium of the Jxeoutive Committee of the

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the

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International, ov.r the aignature of Mons1eur ZinoTlev. ita Pres1dent, dated September

The letter oootain.

~5th.

inatruotion. to British aubJeota to work for the rtolent overthrow 0% exiatlng lnst1tut10na 1n th18 country, and for the aUDversion of Bia KaJeat7'a armed foroea aa a mean. to that en4. It 1. mJ dU't7 to infOrm you

2.

tba~

Hia

KaJes~7'8

Government oannot allow thia propaaana.a and !DUat regard it as a d1reot interferenoe from outaide in British domestio aftaira. Io one who underetanda the OODatltution ana. the

3.

relationShips of the Communiat Internat10nal will doubt ita intimate oonneot10n and oont.at with the Soviet Government.

10 Government w1l1 ever tolerate an arrangement with

a foreign government by whioh the latter il in farmal d1plomatio relat10ne of a aorreot k1nd the

aam.

tim. a propeaandlat

bo~

lid th

it. Whilst at

organioail7 oonneoted

w1th that fore1gn government enoourage. and even ordera aubjeota of the former to plot overthrow.

and

plan revolution. for ita

SUoh oonduot i. not onb

&

the rul •• of international oOlllt7. but Konsieur C. DakOT.ki. eto •• eto •• eto.

grave c1.eparture frOil &

vial_otton o-r speoifiol


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