By far the most exciting incident in the Election cam-
paign has been the publication by the Foreign Office of a letter which contains instructions for revolutionary violence in this country, and which purports to come from Zinovieff, the President of the Communist International at Moscow. The text of this letter, together with the British Note of protest addressed by the Foreign Office to M. Rakovsky, Charge d'Affaires of the Soviet in London, was issued last Sunday night. Zinovieff's letter is dated September 15th. He and his co-signatories, McManus and Kuusinen, point out that Mr. MacDonald was forced by members of the British proletariat to conclude the Treaty when there was a danger that it would be dropped, and they urge Communists to show the greatest possible energy in the further struggle for ratification. To this end the British proletariat, it is urged, should be stirred up and the unemployed should be brought into action. " Armed warfare must be preceded by a struggle against the inclinations to com- promise which are embedded among the majority of British workmen."
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