Publicity Without Appeal

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 August 1949, Page 3

Publicity Without Appeal

Sir,—The various leaflets issued by the Communist Party and the one by Mr Frank Langstone, M.P. are illuminating—to those who read between the lines. One deposited in our milk box yesterday gave us the, laugh of the week. The cartoonist did a good job in filling four pages,- but he certainly excelled himself when he portrayed a typical Communist spitting out “no’ in the face of the' Prime Minister, Mr Fraser I recommend a study of the face of the Communist as portrayed, in comparison with photographs in a recent weekly journal of interjectors at the Auckland Town Hall, where organpandemonium denied the Prime Minister a hearing on the military training issue. Any of the faces shown in the photographs might have been used by the cartoonist as a model, as they contained all the concentrated, fanatical malignity so ably brought out by the artist. Mr Langstone’s only contribution to knowledge in his pamphlet was his reference to Mr Stalin as “Uncle Joe.’ It used to be a saying that when a person was in the toils of a moneylender the latter was referred to as his “Uncle Mo.” I trust Mr Langstone’s predicament is not of this nature and that he can repudiate any suggested relationship with his “Uncle Joe” at any time, without paying interest — Yours; etc., NEW ZEALAND CALLING. Greymouth, August 1.