COMMUNISM

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25437, 8 March 1948, Page 2

COMMUNISM

Sir,—Neither Mr E. B. E. Taylor, chairman of the Canterbury division of the National Party, nor Mr A. B. Grant, secretary of the Canterbury Trades Council, has anything useful to offer as to why Communism is spreading and will continue to spread, because the leader of the National Party (Mr S. G. Holland) and the Prime Minister (Mr P. Fraser), leader of the Labour Party, in dealing with agriculture, have been at fault. Communism is spreading on the Continent because agriculture (the people’s food) is being tackled successfully. This factor is of such enormous importance that the wage-earners and their officials should do everything in their power, as a first step, to encourage liberals to stand in every seat held by the National Party and endeavour to break the strangehold placed on agriculture by the leaders of the two parties mentioned.—Yours, etc., H. BLISS. March 4, 1948.

Sir, —Your correspondent, “H. 5. has shown by the matter in his letter that he knows practically nothing of the present threat to Europe, indeed to the whole world. Of course Russia doesn’t want a war; nobody does. Russia wants a bloodless political domination ■of Europe. This aim is being achieved by the insidious propaganda and methods she is now using. We citizens of to-day must make the great decision —Communism or democracy. Great Britain is doing all she can, in spite of handicaps, to aid America in her justified task of assisting the European countries in their fight against Communism, and we, instead of having societies for closer relations with the Soviet in our midst, should be doing the same thing.—Yours, etc., DEPORT THE COMMUNISTS. March 7, 1948