DOCUMENT 25
Telegram from the ECCI
Secretariat to the CPGB.
21.1.37 17.00
London
Organize answer by Pritt [to]article [by]Siedoff[i] in
Manchester Guardian;[ii] send
protest letters against Manchester Guardian which becomes the tribune of
Trotskyist bandits.
Secretariat
RGASPI, F. 495, op.
184, d. 14, Outgoing telegram for 1937 to London
Original in
English. Handwritten.
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[i]Lev Lvovich Sedov (1906-1938) was the eldest son of Leon Trotsky and the editor-in-chief of the Bulletin of the Opposition, the Trotskyist newspaper, from June 1929 until his death in February 1938.
[ii]The Manchester Guardian, founded in 1821, was and remains England's most prominent liberal newspaper.