Letters, Apr. 5, 1937

"Moscow Gold"

Sirs:

I am not a regular reader of TIME. But this week I happened to come across your Jan. 25 issue and thought I would see what the magazine that seems to be read by quite a number of Americans was like.

What was my astonishment to find in your Foreign News section a perfectly casual statement to the effect that the leaders of the 1927 British coal strike "received through the Bank of England from the Soviet State Bank some $2,000,000."

Now I happened to be living in London during that year and...

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