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=== Letter === Near the end of the short election campaign, there appeared in the ''[[Daily Mail]]'' newspaper the text of a letter addressed to the Central Committee of the [[Communist Party of Great Britain]] (CPGB) purporting to have originated from [[Grigory Zinoviev]], head of the Executive Committee of the [[Communist International]] (Comintern); Secretary of the Comintern [[Otto Wille Kuusinen]]; and [[Arthur MacManus]], a British representative at a conference of the Executive Committee. It predicted that the Labour government's attempted normalisation of Britain's diplomatic and economic relations with the Soviet Union would not only profit the latter but also stir the British proletariat to revolutionary action and allow Soviet influence throughout the British Empire to widen.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Chamberlain |first1=Austen |author1-link=Austen Chamberlain |editor1-last=Medlicott |editor1-first=William |editor1-link=W. N. Medlicott |title=Documents on British Foreign Policy 1919β1939 |date=1968 |orig-date=1926|publisher=[[HMSO]] |location=London |page=919 |volume=II|display-editors=et al}}</ref> One particularly damaging section of this letter read: {{quote|A settlement of relations between the two countries will assist in the revolutionising of the international and British proletariat not less than a successful rising in any of the working districts of England, as the establishment of close contact between the British and Russian proletariat, the exchange of delegations and workers, etc., will make it possible for us to extend and develop the propaganda of ideas of Leninism in England and the Colonies.<ref>The National Archives, [http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=The_Zinoviev_Letter "The Zinoviev Letter."] {{webarchive|url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20090216122459/http%3A//yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title%3DThe_Zinoviev_Letter |date=16 February 2009 }}, retrieved 27 Aug. 2009.</ref>}}
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