CHARGE AGAINST COMMUNIST
ALLEGED SEDITIOUS UTTERANCES
(Rec. 11.30 p»m.) CANBERRA. September 24., The acting Attorney-General (Senator N. E. McKenna) announced to-day that Gilbert Burns, an executive member of the Queensland Communist Party, had been summoned under the Commonwealth Crimes Act for the alleged use of seditious words. The charge is: "On September 15, at Brisbane, Burns uttered seditious words in that, in answer to a question, he said: ‘lf Australia were involved in a war. it would be between Soviet Russia and American and British Imperialism. It would be a counterrevolutionary war. It would be a reactionary war. We would oppose that war. We would fight on the side of the Soviet Union.’ ”
The maximum penalty provided by the section under which Burns is charged is three years’ imprisonment.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25609, 25 September 1948, Page 7
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