FLOOD OF PROPAGANDA
COMMUNISTS IN BRITAIN
POLICY DICTATED FROM MOSCOW AND BEK LI X. ‘•LABOUR PARTY STAGNANT.” By Telegraph. — Press Assn.— Copyright. (Sydney '‘Sun” Cable.) LONDON, October '2l. Admiral Sir F. C. Bridgman, speaking at Newcastle, said that the Communists—not a large but a very active body—were flooding Britain with propaganda. Their policy for undermining Britain and all civilised countries, he said, was carefully dictated from Moscow, and also partly from Berlin. Ho described tho Labour Party as the embodiment of reaction and stagnation, whose thinking was done by Russian Bolsheviks, German junkers, and Irish Republicans! The Duke of Northumberland, who presided, made reference to Mr Philip Snowden's picture of Britain before capitalism took its present shape, and said: ‘‘Why not go back to til© anthropoid apes, back to the Tree tops, whicli are still suitable for some wouldbe leaders.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11657, 23 October 1923, Page 6
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