Reds’ Insidious War Of Nerves Against Democracies
LONDON, Dec, 19 The Communists, directed through the Cominform (Communist Information Bureau) and dominated by Russia seemed determined to try to destroy the Parliamentary democracies one by one, the Attorney-General, Sir Hartley Shawcross, told a meeting at Exeter. “They are using every device short of actual use of arms to promote political instability and economic chaos which are the conditions in which the seeds of totalitarianism take root and flourish.
“I don’t believe that anybody—the Russians or anyone else—intends or contemplates a war of arms, but the Communists are engaged on a more insidious and not, perhaps, less dangerous kind of war—of nerves, propaganda political unrest and economic disruption.
“I am sure that once we re-establish ourselves on a firm and stable, political and economic foundation the problems dividing this country and Russia will be solved.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22825, 21 December 1948, Page 7
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