HC Deb 11 June 1928 vol 218 c604
4. Mr. PILCHER

asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether, and, if so, on what occasions during the past two years, the Indian Government has respectively tolerated and prevented' the delivery to Indian addressees of contributions from Moscow to the funds of Indian strikers?

Earl WINTERTON

I have no exact information, and would prefer not to make any statement until I am in possession of such information.

Mr. PILCHER

Has the Noble Lord's attention been drawn to a letter written by Mrs. Besant, no friendly critic of the Indian Government, to one of the Indian trade union leaders in receipt of Bolshevist money, to the effect that it should be returned, because it is poured out to create riots and bloodshed in other lands, and disgraces anyone who touches it.