SWING TO THE EAST

Wanganui Chronicle, 8 June 1948, Page 5

SWING TO THE EAST

COMMUNIST STRATEGY LAWLESSNESS AND VIOLENCE IN MALAYA ' Singapore, June 6. The directors of international Communism were moving eastward after being checked in Europe, said Mr. Malcolm MacDonald. High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in South-east Asia, broadcasting over Radio Malaya. Their political agitators were behind the lawlessness and violence which were now sweeping Malaya. Their desperate attempts to impose the rule of gun and knife .in plantations, mines, and factories would be stopped, and the movement struck down. After capitalising the nationalist movements in India and Burma, he said, the Communists were now seeking to destroy their newly-established Governments by trying to create economic and political distress so that the peoples would turn : n desperation to Communism. Communists in Malaya denounced British imperialism, thus seeking to exploit the nationalist movement in this country. Malays had nothing to fear from the British but they did from Russian imperialism. Britain would continue to advance Malaya steadily through demal cratic institutions to self-government.

D-DAY ANNIVERSARY RUSSIAN DEROGATION.

Berlin, June 6. The Russian - licensed newspaper “Tagliche Rundschau" commemorated the fourth anniversary of D-Day with the accusation that Britain and America worked with the German secret service to delay D-Day as long as possible. The British - licensed “Telegraf” attacked the Russiansponsored Press for trying to detract from the value of the invasion from the west.