REDS FOSTER UNREST IN MALAYA
(10.45 a.m.) SINGAPORE. June 6. The directors of international communism were now turning eastward after being checked in Europe, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in South-East Asia, said tonight in a broadcast to Malaya. Their political agitators were behind the fresh outbreak of lawlessness and violence sweeping Malaya. Their desperate attempts to impose a rule of
gun and knife in plantations, mines and factories would be stopped and the movement struck down. Communists, after capitalising the nationalist movements in India and Burma, were now seeking to destroy their newly-established Governments by trying to create economic and political distress so that the peoples would in desperation turn to communism. Communists in Malaya denounced British imperialism, thus seeking to exploit the nationalist movement in this country.
The Malayans had nothing to fear from the British, but they did from Russian imperialism—ideological, economic and strategic, warned Mr. MacDonald. Britain would continue to advance in Malaya steadily through democratic institutions to self-govern-jnent.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22657, 7 June 1948, Page 5
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