REVOLUTIONARY PLOT
EVIDENCE IN PHILIPPINES COMMUNIST DIRECTION ALLEGED Rec. 11.30 p.m. NEW YORK, May 26. A connection between the Philippine Hukbuiahaps and several other subversive peasant and labour bodies with Communist organisations in the United States, China and Russia is claimed to have been found by a Congressional committee, which alleges a plot to create a revolutionary situation in the Philippines similar to that of the Russians in 1917, says the New York Times correspondent at Manila. The report, which had been nearly a year in preparation, charged the militant minority with trying to rapture, the power of the Government in the Philippines Evidence was discovered showing that the Philippines Communist Party was directed and controlled from the United States as part of a world-wide revolutionary movement.
It also states that the Communist movement is a foreign conspiracy, which succeeded in enlisting the aid and comfort of a considerable number of American citizens. The report criticised the failure to enforce a Supreme Court decision in 1932 declaring the Communist Party illegal, and declared that this failure was at the root of the genera] breakdown in law and order in Central Luzon.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26472, 28 May 1947, Page 5
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