CHANCE REMARK

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 256, 25 July 1936, Page 22

CHANCE REMARK

Communist Plot Exposed

A chance remark to a fellow-passen-ger by a Communist agent on a ship bound for South America has led to the discovery of an audacious Communist plot to bring about a revolution in Brazil. Details of this plot were revealed by a man who was responsible for the arrest, when he landed at Montevideo, of the passenger whom he suspected of being a Communist agitator, states the “Sunday Chronicle,” London. “The police searched the luggage of this man, Harry Berger, several times before they discovered hidden in a secret partition a document which, had it not been intercepted, would have undoubtedly led to uprisings and bloodshed in Brazil,” he said. It was stressed in the document that in the initial stages of preparing for revolution, Communism must nob be mentioned. Nationalism —not Internationalism —must be the keynote. Religious and family life were not to be attacked —and this included , Jewry. But all sections of the community were to be incited each against the other. “Once the man who was carrying this document was safely established in Brazil he was to be followed, by special instructors financed by the Communist International,” continued the “Sunday Chronicle” informant. '

Every one of these men—who was instructed to disavow any connection

with Communism —was given the task of urging people to join a Nationalist party working for the repudiation of foreign debts, a more equable distribution of wealth, and the nationalisation of transport. “The most ghastly and cruel part of the scheme,” he continued, “lies in the instructions given for creating hatred, not only against wealthy people but also among working people. “In Sno Paulo the paid agitators of Moscow were to urge a policy of separation from Rio de Janeiro. In Rio, workers were to be roused to a state of indignation against this separatist move. This was to be stirred up into actual violence.” He then quoted a passage from the document: “Every opportunity to agitate must be seized. If no opportunities present themselves they must be created. “Questions relating to race, religion, sport, science, education shall all serve the purpose of agitating. All agitation is useful to our ideal. “Bloodshed would certainly have followed the dissemination of this policy of class-hatred and class-warfare. When a state of civil war was general throughout the country the Communist ‘cells’ would take command. “It was a fortunate chance,” he concluded, “which saved Brazil from a revolution which would have brought suffering and death to thousands of innocent, unsuspecting people.”