SOVIET PROPAGANDA.
READING FOR CANADIANS. ATTACKS ON RELIGION. Sun. OTTAWA, April 18. The Soviet trade delegation which recently visited the capital with the objects of securing Canada's recognition and of developing trade with Russia has been brought back snamarily to explain certain matters to the immigration authorities. The delegates brought several huge packing cases of books for presentation to Canadian libraries. , The customs officials discovered that these contained a large proportion of Bolshevik propaganda of a luridly "red" type. In some of these books are passages attacking the Almighty and the Christian religion. Some contain open derision of monarchical and even republican forms of government, and eulogies of Communism. The delegates plead that these books were designed for presentation to private libraries only, but the explanation fails to satisfy the officials, especially in view of the coloured cartoons and posters contained in the packages. The delegation has been in touch with . a sympathetic element in Winnipeg, where there is a large foreign section, and the authorities hope to nip the whole plot in the bud.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18689, 21 April 1924, Page 7
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