§ 28. Mr. Blackburnasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether in view of the agreement reached during the war for the abolition of the Comintern he has received any official notification from the Government of the U.S.S.R. with relation to the formation of the Cominform.
§ Mr. BevinNo, Sir. The announced dissolution of the Comintern was the act of those who comprised it. With reference to the latter part of the Question, obviously we have had no notification.
§ Mr. BlackburnIs the Foreign Secretary aware that the Deputy Prime Minister of the Soviet Union signed the official Cominform manifesto describing the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary as traitors; and whether it is not clear that this is the reconstitution of the Comintern in an aggravated form with advance headquarters in Belgrade and rear headouarters in Moscow?