FEDERAL POLICY ON COMMUNISM
SPEECH BY MR CALWELL SYDNEY. October 17. I “There are more Communists in the universities to-day than in the trade unions.” said the Federal Minister of Immigration (Mr A. A. Calwell) in a speech. Mr Calwell said that the Federal Government believed in allowing the Communist Party to function openly, and prosecuting it if it broke the law. This was the most effective way of : dealing with people whose outlook was j foreign to the majority of Australians, i It was not enough to condemn Communism. The things which made it possible for it to grow and thrive should Experience had shown that Communism could not be prevented by driving it underground, added Mr Calwell.
Trial in Sweden.— Goesta Mittag Lefiler a Swede, has been arrested on a charge of making a card index of Sweden’s power stations and their distribution network. The police said that his trial would be held behind closed doors “for the sake of national security and Sweden's relations with foreign Powers.”—Stockholm, October 16.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25937, 18 October 1949, Page 5
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