CABLED WARNINGS
TRENDS TOWARD WAR AUSTRALIA WARNED CANBERRA, March 14. Senior Commonwealth Ministers are reported to be worried by secret cables warning of a trend towards war. The Prime Minister. Mr. J. B. Chifley, has ordered the Commonwealth security service to keep the closest check on Communists in Australia. There is a dossier in the security files now on every known and suspected Communist, The security chief, Colonel Longfield Lloyd, is at present in Canberra for a special conference. The Communist coup in Czechoslovakia has had a marked effect on public opinion, which has also been influenced by statements such as that made by the Liberal member of Parliament, Mr. T. W. White, that “Stalin is swallowing up countries with a more insidious technique than Hitler’s blackmail.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22587, 16 March 1948, Page 5
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