SHARP ATTACK ON COMMUNISM

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27638, 20 April 1955, Page 13

SHARP ATTACK ON COMMUNISM

“Colonialism Devoted To Domination”

(Rec. 9 p.m.) NEW YORK, April 18. Communism came under a surprisingly sharp attack today as “a new type of colonialism, devoted to conquest and domination/* at the opening of the African-Asian conference, says a United Press report from Bandung, Both Iraq and Free Vietnam warned the delegates, representing more than half the world’s peoples, of the dangers of Communist enslavement. The report says that the Chinese Communist Prime Minister (Mr Chou En-lai), who had been expected to move at once an attempt to turn the conference into a Communist propaganda circus, sat strangely silent while:

Dr. Fazihl Jamala, of Iraq, warned the newly-independent nations of the Middle and Far East that they would be “jumping from the frying pan into the fire” if they fell under Communist influence. Mr Nguyen van Thoai (South Vietnam) distributed a speech in which he described the Communist rule in North Vietnam as “a dictatorial regime, which completely ignored human values and personality and the basic rights of men.” Dr. Jamali’s speech drew long and loud applause. He looked directly at Mr Chou as he delivered his attack. He told the conference that there could be no hope for peace until the Communists agreed to what he termed physical and psychological disarmament. “Communism,” he said, “denies God.” Dr. Jamali joined Colonel Gamal Nasser, the Egyptian Prime Minister, in demanding that the Arabs be given back the territory “they were forced to yield to create the State of Israel ”