On his return journey from Moscow, he was arrested by Estonian authorities and then detained aboard a British warship.

[6] For the first two decades of the 20th century, Goode was principal of London County Council's Graystoke Day Training College for Teachers.

[11] Although Goode was accompanied by a translator, and offered to use German or French, the interview was conducted, by both participants, in English.

[11] He had time for just three questions:[11] Lenin answered all three, and made a short statement calling for the publication of the Soviet constitution in the UK and extolling that system's virtues.

[7][12] On 4 November 1919, once news of Goode's detentions became known in England, Joseph Kenworthy asked a question about them in the House of Commons.

[12] In response, Cecil Harmsworth, the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, said that Goode had been detained by the Navy only while instructions for what to do with him had been obtained and he had quickly been released.

[8] He said:[8] At Judgment Day, let me stand in the dock with Lenin and Trotsky, and not with one people.He became president of Tavistock Labour Party in 1927.