BREAK WITH MOSCOW.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21165, 23 April 1932, Page 15

BREAK WITH MOSCOW.

CONVERT TO CHRISTIANITY. EX-COMMUNIST ORGANISER. A man who said that he was formerly a Moscow-trained Communist organiser in Britain at a salary of £IOOO a year told a London audience on March 10 that a great destructive influence known as the Comrades of Life, financed by Moscow, is at work in the British Isles.

The man's name is Victor T. Webb, a Scotsman in the early "thirties, with a stentorian voice developed at open-air meetings. He was speaking at a luncheon held by the World Evangelisation. Trust, Limited, a recently-formed religious movement, at the Mi'ldmay Conference centre, at. Xewington Green, London. " The Comrades of Life." Mr. Webb said, is an anti-Christian movement with headquarters in Moscow, and its slogans are 'All power to the workers' and 'Organised religion must perish.' The secret activities of the movement are the illegal side of Communism, and it has 2000 active agents in the British isles. Its object is to create a revolution throughout the world." Mr. Webb told a Daily Mail reporter that he spent about seven months in Russia training as a Communist organiser, after which he went to Britain on his £IOOO-a-year job. " The headquarters of the movement, in London," he said, " are in the Covent Garden district. I was formerly an atheist, but about two years ago 1 was converted to the Christian faith and threw over all association with Moscow. I am now to make a tour of the industrial centres, speaking at meetings of working people. My addresses will be of a religious nature, and non-poli-tical."