Monday, May. 28, 1923

Propaganda

According to the Russian correspondent of The Morning Post, London daily, Nikolai Bukharin, Editor of the Pravda, Moscow communist daily, informed the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party and the Praesidum of the Third Internationale that certain ".comrades" had spent $13,750,000 in propaganda, for which there were no accounts or documents available.

He charges G. S. Zinoviev, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Third Internationale with having paid secret " lady agents " in Great Britain and France the sum of $1,600,000 during 1922.

He accuses Karl Radek, Chief of Publicity in the Soviet Government, of not having rendered account of large sums of money, with which he was instructed to subsidize Communist organizations in Egypt, Bulgaria, Turkey.

He wants to know what happened to $790,000 given to Jacques Sadoul, ex-captain in the French army, for the purpose of organizing communist mass movements in French colonies.

Finally he accuses the comrades Narimanov and Rothstein, chiefs of the Foreign Propaganda Department, of not having furnished a statement of accounts since 1921.