1 NOVEMBER 1924, Page 2

M. Rakovsky's reply to the Foreign Office was published in

the papers of Monday. He tried to show by an examination of the forms of the signatories and of the heading of the instructions that they varied from customary usages and that therefore forgery was obvious. We cannot help remarking at this point that the authors of secret documents are usually quite clever enough to provide themselves with loopholes. It is very advan- tageous for them to be able to say in the event of discovery that internal evidence proves a document to be a forgery. It is always unsound to proceed on the principle that the intelligence of critics is necessarily superior to the intelligence of authors.

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