COMMUNIST STRATEGY

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 287, 21 September 1950, Page 5

COMMUNIST STRATEGY

POLICY REVIEWED BY MR MENZIES CANBERRA, September 21. Communist strategy, as seen m Korea. Indo-China and Malaya, was to disperse the democratic forces, said the Prime Minister (Mr R. G. Menzies) in a defence broadcast to-night. “If this succeeds, the Communist wins the war without himself firing a shot,” he said. “We are confronting a new technique of world aggression. The communists undermine or overrun some European or Asiatic country. They set up a puppet government, and then inspire the new puppet government to make an attack under circumstances which impose the greatest military difficulty on the democratic Powers generally. . “If the satellite wins, the policy has succeeded. Another Communist campaign has been won on the cheap. “The great democracies lose prestige and more people are prepared to become satellites. “If the satellite is defeated, the whole thing is represented as local and unimportant. _ “The purpose not only in Korea hut in Indo-China and Malaya is to disperse the democratic forces, weaken their reputation and authority, maintain nervous tension, force up costs and prices, and create the feeling in the minds of people like ourselves that as any of us may be attacked we had better keep all our forces at home.”