Rae encloses a photograph of a typeset report to Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin from F.K. Roberts, Chargé d'Affaires in Moscow, summarizing the proceedings of the Ideological Council held in the summer. Zhdanov is the main theorist whose concern is to criticize G.F. Alexandrov's History of Western European Philosophy. Zhdanov is on the Central Committee.

Rae thanks BR for his letter about his speaking tour in the Low Countries.