Greymouth Evening Star. TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1948. Reds In The East

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 August 1948, Page 4

Greymouth Evening Star. TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1948. Reds In The East

THE' significance of the support, for the 1 killers in,Malaya which the Australian Communists have expressed through their secretary, Mr Sharkey, should not be lost on the people of this country. Tt reveals something of the nature of the plottings of the agents of disruption. . Already Com-munist-dominated trade unions in Aus in m have moved to impose a ban on the shipment to Malaya, of arms urgently required to defend life and property. In other words, these unionists are prepared to allow the killers to continue their dastardly t\ork. And, if they are prepared to countenance such tactics in lands not so very far away from Australia and New Zealand, is it not only reasonable to assume that they would offer no objection to the introduction of similar methods here if the opportunity should arise? . Until Germany invaded Russia, the Malayan Communist Party and Malayan Communist Youth Party did all they could to obstruct the war effort by strikes and sabotage. After'l94l, they swung to the British side. What is certain now is that they have been immensely stimulated by the Communists’ successes in China, and the British retreat from India and Burma has fired their ambition to seize possession of Malaya. Directly Japan 101 l the Communists showed Uieir teeth, and with strikes, sabotage and terrorism gave the British Military Administration - serious trouble. Tn 1946, 845,637 days were lost through strikes. Tn. 1947 there wore 89 strikes, attended by much violence. The administration was undoubtedly hampered by idealistic orders from London, beautiinl in intention bm unsuitable to the state of Malaya.

The agents of the Soviet, accepting Lenin’s dictum, that ‘/there are no morals in politics; there is only expediency,” are attempting to bemuse Australians and New Zealanders with lying propaganda about, international, affairs, on the lines of lhe tactics adopted in peddling lying philosophies to the workers of Czechoslovakia and half a dozen other countries before Soviet rn le__ w hieh Stalin himself has described as being “unrestricted by law and based on force” —was introduced. It is becoming increasingly evident that the directors of international Communism, halted temporarily in the West, arc now intensifying their efforts to obtain political control of nhe greater part of the East and thus harness to their power chariot the teeming millions of people who inhabit the countries on one side of the Pacific. Everywhere there is concrete evidence of Communist action. Tt would be foolish to suppose that the Soviet Government is concerned only with events in Europe and lhe Middle East. Russian aims in Asia have always been greedy and ambit ions. ’Pho policy she is pursuing now is lhe same as that pursued by the Czars, only more actively. From, the strategical viewpoint., her position, is very strong. The dangers of Communism in the Orient cannot be over-emphasised. Those people in Australia and New Zealand who support its machinations in any country are traitors to the democracies which afford them shelter. They are striving to surrender democracy to a State which destroys all human liberties and offers its workers only death as an alternative to serfdom.