Communist Threat In India Said To Be Military Problem

Wanganui Chronicle, 11 September 1950, Page 4

Communist Threat In India Said To Be Military Problem

AUCKLAND. Last Night (PA).—The Communist threat in India is viewed by Mr. C. F. Brown, a British journalist who was until recently assistant editor of the "Times of India" in Bombav and Delhi, as purely a military problem. “It is rather optimistic to think o an improvement in the economic conditions of Asia being an answer to Communism’’ he said on arrival in Auckland o n Saturday. "Peonle glibly talk of a scheme like Ma-shall aid for India, but. that would be an impossll.ilitv and. in anto 100 years to have any effect. India has not -nt Ih*» plant, tools or technical knowledge.”

Mr. P.ro”’n was editor of the force's paper "Union Jack” U Ttab- and afw. wards joined th« staff of the London “Dailv Mail” Un left a ago with his wUe and child and ma” settle in New Zealand. “Tt, is merely because of Pandit Nehru’s aUrebmpni io the nrincmles of th« United Nations that India Iw taken the stand she has over the Unrean war,” said Mr. Brown. “The general in India is one of aloofness to Co^imi’n* The main problem is that it is diffirnh tn es* ; - mato th« numerical strength of the Communists because over” litt'e outbreak is attributed b-- Governfz, where's in. man-' C’ses the nutbreak may not have been Com-munist-inspired.”