ANTI-COMMUNIST BILL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27385, 10 May 1950, Page 8

ANTI-COMMUNIST BILL

Menzies ' who gained fame ? re ,' war years by trying to force the Australian watersiders to load scrap if° n r .^ a P an * has gained new fame as Bifl U lt ia innpa° f Anti-Gommunist pin. it appears that some neoDle are incapable of learning from history Mr Kies and his fellow that certain other gentlemen notion that Communism! ideology and as a social force, Hi!!!?, be legislated out of existence. Marni, br !? fly !f X, hat Hitler did between £? arob 31 ai } d May 10, 1933—March 31, v Party is banned in Ger--01 a ” y • A Pnl 1, boycott of the Jews, issuance of first Aryan laws; May 2, unions incorporated in the Nazi Party’s “ Labour Front ; May 10, burning of books in tiia campaign against un-German culture. Just as it was impossible for Hitler to stop at the banning of th e Communist Party, so it will be impossible for Mr to stop there, but he must follow the logical pattern of undemocratic beginnings. Mr Menzies and his supporters may C F® Jo ponder on the fate that awnlted Hitler and his regime. Here is what the conservative aristocrat, Raoul De Sales, states in editing "My New Order,’ by Adolph Hitler: “The Communists were banned, which meant that it was possible from then on to persecute or put into concentration camps anyone who could possibly be accused of not being a loyal Nazi." Of course. Hitler was only one of many whose cloak Mr Menzies seeks to don. Past members of the anti-Communist crusade include Mussolini, Lavlal, A 1 Capone and Tojo. Present leaders in this holy campaign inqlude Chiang Kai-shek. General Franco and Oswald Mosley. You have given much publicity to Mr Menzies’ Bill, now, ’Mr Editor, in bold type for all to see, print the prophetic words of Lenin written in 1921: “Life will assert itself. Let the capitalist class rave, let It work itself into a frenzy, commit stupidities, take vengeance in advance on the Communists, and endeavour to exterminate in India, Hungary, Germany, etc., more hundreds, thousands,and hundreds of thousands of the Communists of yesterday or those of tomorrow. Acting thus, the capitalist class acts as did all classes condemned to death by history. The. Communists must know that : :the future at any rate is theirs. ... In all cases and In all countries Communism grows; its roots are so deep that persecution neither weakens, nor debilitates, but rather strengthens- it.” So, Mr Editor, applaud if you care Mr Menzies’ action, but rfemember always that you will share the guilt as did whole Sections of the German people for the imposition of a tyranny which will destroy even lwiberalism.—l am, etc., ' r'-.- lan Jamieson.