YOUTH CARNIVAL AT SYDNEY
COMMUNIST BACKING SAID TO BE PROVED (New Zealand Press Association) _ NAPIER, March 3. The Government had definite proof "*at the Youth Carnival 'for Peace and Friendship to be held in Sydney was Communist inspired, said the Minister in Charge of Police (Mr W. H Fortune) addressing delegates from 24 branches of the Wellington division of the Junior National Party at a two-day rally held during the weekend.
Communism, which had made slaves of more than 600,000.000 people, was now making an appeal to ministers of religion and to others on whose emotions the Communists hoped they could play, said the Minister. “Some of these people, with the best of intentions, have allowed themselves to be led and are now used as a window dressing,” he said. “The Stockholm petition and this youth carnival are among the seemingly innocent campaigns to win the hearts of the people.
“But as Minister in charge of Police I am only too well aware of all the activities that are going on. and though we are supposed to believe that the Sydney carnival is not Communist inspired I have definite proof that it is.”
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Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26671, 4 March 1952, Page 8
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