(Untitled), 12 Aug 1920

Item

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/110/69-71

Scope and Contents

Letter from James Baum, secretary of the Leicester and District Trades Council (11 Briton Street, [Leicester]) to WSC asserting that: the Blue Book on the evacuation on North Russia confirms the Council's belief that WSC had secretly agreed to provide troops for the war against Soviet Russia; that the Parliamentary Labour Party tried to get WSC's actions debated on 6 July but were refused permission; that Poland, with British support, was the original aggressor in its struggle with Soviet Russia; that WSC's "secret and subtle ways" are a cause of the grave world situation. Typescript copy. Original at CHAR 2/110/128-129.

Dates

Creation: 12 Aug 1920

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