“COMMUNIST PARASITES”

Evening Star, Issue 25419, 26 February 1945, Page 4

“COMMUNIST PARASITES”

BATTENING ON N.Z. WORKER CAUSTIC COMMENT (P.A.) AUCKLAND. February 26. Straight talking was a i feature of the address given by Major W. S, Jordan, M.8.E., M.C., speaking at the Auckland Rotary Club luncheon to-day. Major Jordan recently returned to New Zealand after serving overseas ns a fighting soldier, war correspondent, British parachute agent, and finally with the French Forces of the Interior.

“I am not surprised that a class'of person in New 'Zealand cried ‘ hapds off Greece,’ ” he declared. _ “ That cry caine from the Communist parasites who have always lived off New Zealand workers, and pretend their views are, those of the worker. I have shared the views of New Zealand servicemen ■overseas —that ‘ the workflers were stabbing us in the back when they struck too frequently and on ridiculous pretexts. ' On returning. I find the worker is as much behind the men overseas as any other, section of the community. But he is allowing this extremist minority to organise and speak for him. As long as that movement continues its disruption of-indus-try, the Japanese and Germans will never have to parachute secret agents into New Zealand to disrupt industries.”

Major Jordan mentioned that criticism was often heard concerning French vengeance against collaborators. That criticism would not be made, he said, if the people uttering it had ever stood; outside a Gestapo prison and heard the screams of children synchronising with . the moans of their fathers under torture inside.