MOSCOW ATTACK

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21963, 6 March 1946, Page 5

MOSCOW ATTACK

PREMIER ALLEGED FASCIST SWAY BAN ON COMMUNISM (10 a.m.) LONDON, March 5. The Moscow radio, in an English talk (o North America, declared that the Canadian Government have earned distinction by persecuting Labour organisations.

The radio, in a talk entitled “Who is Mac ke n i e King.” said that Mr. M ackcnzie King’s Govern»ment had made a special ruling to outlaw the Communist Party. On the other hand, militant Fascist organisations flourished under the aegis of the Government. “ M e m b c r s of these organisations are notorious for raids on libraries and schools, and for burning in public of progressi v e literature," said the rad io. "Mr. Mackenzie King has invari-

ably followed in ?/Ir, Mackenzie King the wake of British policy one of the few deviations from it being his ignoring for a long time of the AngloSoviet trade agreement of 1921 and his refusal to be bound by the renewal of Anglo-Soviet relations in 1924.”