VIEWS OF BRITISH COMMUNISTS ON NEW BUREAU

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 October 1947, Page 5

VIEWS OF BRITISH COMMUNISTS ON NEW BUREAU

(Rec. 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 12. The British Communist Party, in a statement on the new Communist Information Bureau, expressed “full agreement with the call for strengthening the force of peace and democracy in the struggle against the plans of American imperialism for the political and economic enslavement of Europe.”

The British party secretary, Mr Harry Pollit, said the committee categorically denied that this was a new Communist International. Therefore no question arose of British Communists identifying themselves with the new bureau.

Reuter’s ® Moscow correspondent says the Communist press in the Soviet Union is giving its readers' pictures of “the panic, alarm and confusion prevailing in capitalist imperialistic circles” following the formation of the Communist Information Bureau.

According to Pravda, Australia is one of the countries which published “fulminating provocative comment.” The correspondent says that the declaration coming after Mr Vyshinsky’s United Nations attack on America resulted in widespread' talk in Russia of the possibilities of war or peace, but Russian men in the street sincerely hope the efforts of the Soviet leaders will ultimately result in a sure, well-founded peace.