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may have played its part. With certain persons there is apparently an emotional appeal and glamour, as it were a sense of adventure, inherent in the conspiratorial methods and purposive activity of the groups. With more sophisticated persons, fascination by what may appear to them to be the efficiency of the unusual and essentially totalitarian system of Party organisation through pyramiding "cells" may offer an attractive appeal.

In the vast majority of cases, one important element in the original appeal would seem to have been propaganda carried out by the Communist Party for various measures of "social reform" in Canada. The policy of carrying on propaganda for various domestic measures which in themselves are calculated to appeal to a substantial section of the Canadian people, has obviously served two important objectives of the leaders of the Fifth Column.

In the first place, by associating such domestic propaganda, in the minds of as many people as possible, with the external propaganda of a particular foreign state, this policy serves in itself to "carry" by implication, that foreign state's propaganda. This is a common and very effective non-rational technique of modern advertising. An obvious commercial example is the use of a pretty face in advertisements for cigarettes.

Secondly, such a domestic propaganda has unquestioningly played an important part in recruiting Canadians for the "development" courses calculated eventually to make these Canadian instruments for more sinister and illegal Fifth Column purposes.

By these means, a number of young Canadians, public servants and others, who begin with a desire to advance causes which they consider worthy, have been induced into joining study groups of the Communist Party. They are persuaded to keep this adherence secret. They have been led step by step along the ingenious psychological development courses we have outlined, until under the influence of sophisticated and unscrupulous leaders they have been persuaded to engage in illegal activities directed against the safety and interests of their own society.

Essentially what has happened is the transplanting of a conspiratorial technique, which was first developed in less fortunate countries to promote an underground struggle against tyranny, to a democratic society where it is singularly inappropriate."

CONCLUSION.

The Canadian espionage disclosures prompt the question: What do the controllers of Soviet Russia desire; what is their real policy? This real policy is clear enough, but, as with the Canadian Royal Commission's Report, the international newsagencies and the press appear to be determined to suppress the real facts, or distort them. There is little doubt that the undisclosed Communist operate on the newsagencies and the press as well as elsewhere. Mr. Douglas Reed, the famous English publicist, who has worked on every major British newspaper except the Communist "Daily Worker," writes in his journal, "Tidings," of August 10, 1946:

"The mob is misled much more to the Left than to the Right. The reason for this is that news-distortion as a political science is deliberately taught and practised by the Communists, as part of their totalitarian creed, so that they are more skilled in it. The Socialists, being neighbours of the Communists, are infected by it; and the Communist technique of 'infiltration' enables undeclared Communists who are sub-editors, reporters or leader-writers on professedly Socialist, Liberal or Conservative newspapers to work underground for their cause (this is the real explanation for the Communist twist that readers often find given to the news in what they have been brought up to regard as 'Conservative' or 'Liberal' papers)." All of which also applies to the Australian press, and no doubt explains why little has been mentioned about the Canadian Spy Trials and

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the Royal Commission Report. The press has made no serious attempt to tell the real truth about what is happening in Europe or about the real policy of the controllers of the Soviet. In fact there is plenty of evidence that it has pursued a policy of deliberate distortion.

In 1944, Victor Kravchenko, who had been a Member of the Russian Communist Party for 15 years, escaped from Soviet control while representing the Soviet in America. Placing himself "under the protection of American public opinion," Kravchenko denounced the Soviet's "double-faced political manoeuvres" and said that "The Soviet Government has dissolved the Communist International, but only in form; in reality Moscow has continued to support its Communist affiliates in many countries."

In an article in the American "News of the World," October 13, 1946, Kraychenko made the following statements:

• 1. "Stalin, in fact, says the opposite of what he is working for."
• 2. "Not only does he believe in the threat of a new war, but he and the Government he runs are straining every nerve to get ready for it. Their whole foreign and domestic policy confirms this."
• "Stalin's acts obviously bear no relation to his words. Their conscious purpose is to luli the vigilance of the Western countries."
• 4. "Stalin does not believe in prolonged collaboration between the U.S.S.R. and the Western Powers. This statement is based on the fact that the Marx-Lenin-Stalin theory is the mainspring which has motivated, and is still motivating, the actions of the Soviet Government."

What is this Marxism-Leninism which motivates Stalin and his fellow controllers of Russia? It is authoritatively outlined in two works by Stalin, "Problems of Leninism" and "Foundations of Leninism." In the "Foundations of Leninism" the following appears:

"Objective: to consolidate the dictatorship of the proletariat in one country, using it as a base for the overthrow of imperialism in all countries. The revolution is spreading beyond the confines of one country; the period of world revolution has commenced."

Writing of the Russian revolution, Stalin says that it "constitutes the first stage of the world revolution, and a mighty base for its further development."

The popularisation of the idea that Russia is merely an Imperialistic Power seeking expansion by military methods, is a dangerous and misleading policy. As Stalin says, Russia is the base from which help can be given to the conspirators working for revolution in every country. "The revolution in the victorious country must regard itself not as a self-sufficient entity but as an aid, as a means of hastening the victory of the proletariat in other countries."

Stalin quotes Lenin as saying that "Revolution is impossible without a nation-wide crisis (affecting both the exploited and the exploiters)" The Second World War helped considerably to advance the Communist strategy. It is now a matter of history that the Communist controllers of Soviet Russia helped to get the war under way by giving the all clear signal to Germany. At the Nuremberg Trials General Jodl told how the German General Staff was afraid to wage war on the Western Powers until their Eastern frontiers had been secured by the Russo-German Non-Aggression Pact. The controllers of Soviet Russia wanted war and welcomed its commencement.

After Soviet Russia had been drawn into the war, despite her obvious desire to remain neutral, the press conducted a vigorous pro-Russian policy, while in Jugoslovakia Allied support for the Serbian patriot, Michailovitch, was switched to the Russian agent, Tito. This policy of backing Tito, since admitted by Mr. Churchill to have been a bad mistake, coupled with the policy of Mr. Roosevelt, who was surrounded by notorious socialist and communist advisers, in resisting Mr. Churchill's strategy

of the Allies invading Europe from the Mediterranean—"the soft underbelly of Europe"—resulted in the war finishing with Soviet Russia in direct and indirect control of half of Europe. Only strong British action (severely criticised by sections of the press in Great Britain and other countries) prevented the Communists from seizing power in Greece. From Tito's Jugoslavia and other Russian dominated parts of Europe, a bitter anti-British propaganda campaign is being waged. The base from which the Communist conspiracy is being directed has been considerably increased as a result of the Second World War.

Now, in view of Lenin's statement that revolution is impossible without a nation-wide crisis, it is essential that we understand that, although strikes by "key" unions controlled by Communists are an important factor in preparing the way for revolution, industrial troubles are merely a reflection of economic policies. These policies are laid down by the great numbers of "economic advisers" who surround all types of Governments. Most of these "advisers" are known socialists and no doubt some are undisclosed Communists.

The Canadian disclosures showed that many of those engaged in espionage, etc., were either products of, or, as in the case of Professor Boyer, actively associated with, the McGill University, the head of which is Dr. Cyril James, a product of the notorious socialist institution, the London School of Economics. James has been closely associated with the international socialist, Professor Harold Laski, a prominent instructor at the London School of Economics for many years.

In his book, "The State and Revolution," Lenin wrote: "That which is generally called Socialism is termed by Marx the first or lower phase of Communist society."

After visiting Stalin in 1946, Laski proclaimed that Socialism and Communism are merely two distinct roads to the one objective: The World State. Amongst the socialists are undoubtedly many secret Communists, but most of the socialists—the "petty-bourgeoise democrats"—are regarded by the real conspirators against our civilisation as merely useful dupes who, once having served their purpose, can then, as Lenin said, be "liquidated." Nothing is more tragic than to see the Labor-Socialists in this and other countries railing against the Communists while they intensify the policies which lead to the Police State so ardently desired by the international plotters who seek to accomplish what Hitler could not: dominate the entire world.

The London School of Economics was started by the Fabian Socialists and was later financed by the German-Jewish international financier, Cassel, who, according to his socialist friend, Lord Haldane, helped this socialist institution in order that it might be used to raise and train the bureaucracy of the future socialist State. At the diamond jubilee of the Fabian Society, in 1946, Mr. John Strachey, Communist Food Minister in the British Socialist Government said that the question before Great Britain was not socialism in one country, but socialism in one British Commonwealth. Mr. G. B. Shaw, a pioneer Fabian, said in a message to the Fabian jubilee: "The only message I have at the moment is that the Fabian Society, having made Russia a great Fabian State, has now to make Mr. Wallace succeed President Roosevelt as President of the United States." Mr. Wallace's pro-Russian attitude is well known.

The anti-British and subversive teachings of the London School of Economics and similar institutions have permeated all parts of the English speaking world, and have played a big part in the weakening of local loyalties in favour of internationalism. It was very significant that some of those tried for espionage in Canada had been closely connected with the advocacy of internationalism, even openly admitting that they justified their treasonable activities on the grounds that they had a "higher loyalty" than their loyalty to their own country.

The central policy of the "economic experts" tainted with the teachings of the London School of Economics and kindred institutions, has been

to centralise control of all political, financial and economic power into the hands of an enormous bureaucracy controlled by themselves. As was proved in Canada, big Government Departments are a prefect cloak for the activities of the undisclosed Communists.

The "key" economic advisers in Australia are men such as Dr. H. C. Coombs, a London School of Economics man and an associate of Professor Laski, and Dr. Lloyd Ross, who now claims that he is no longer a Communist. In Canada, the chief advisers are Dr. Marsh and Raminsky, both London School of Economics men. Raminsky is also an adviser to the Bank of Canada, from which institution a Miss Chapman was arrested for espionage activities.

As with the McGill and other Universities in Canada, here in Australia it has been obvious for some time that much of the instruction on law and economics is given a definite socialist or communist bias. Some Professors take no trouble to conceal their pro-Communist views. It is not surprising that our Universities are turning out more and more socialist and communist-minded students, perfect material for the secret fifth column. Early in the war, the prominent Zionist, Professor Julius Stone, became Professor of Law at the Sydney University. Professor Stone, apart from being a Zionist, is a socialist, and has been a regular commentator on the A.B.C. When the British had to take strong action in Palestine during the first serious Jewish outrages in 1946, "Honi Soit," the Sydney University Students' journal, published a special edition in which the most violent anti-British lies appeared. Ten thousand free copies of this issue were distributed in Sydney.

In the Melbourne "Argus" of September 28, 1946, the following interesting item on new arrivals in Australia appeared: "Tall, dark, with an atractive foreign accent, was Mrs. H. W. Arndt, who with her husband—Mr. Arndt—has come to Australia as senior lecturer in economics at Sydney University. Previously he was attached to the Royal Institute of International Affairs. His wife studied sociology at the London School of Economics, where she met her husband."

Concerning the Institute of International Affairs, a kindred organisation to the London School of Economics, it need only be stated here that its Secretary, Professor Arnold Toynbee, said at a conference in Copenhagen in 1931, that he and his associates all over the world were striving desperately and with all their might to destroy the sovereignties of all countries. So as not to alarm people too much, Toynbee said that he and his internationalist friends were "denying with their lips what they were doing with their hands." This is exactly what the secret Communists were proved to be doing in Canada and it is no doubt what they are doing in this country.

As the Canadian Report emphasises the fact that many Jews, some originally "refugees" from Europe, were used by Soviet Russia for espionage, it is particularly alarming that at the conclusion of the war a steady influx of Jewish refugees started arriving in Australia. When head of UNRRA in Europe just after the cessation of military hostilities, the British General, Sir Frederick Morgan, charged that UNRRA was being used as a cover to get well fed and well financed Jewish "refugees" out of Eastern Europe, and that some of these "refugees" were Soviet agents. Are such agents now arriving in this country from Europe?

As in Canada, the Communists in this country have used "study groups" — many will recall the creation of Left Book Club discussion groups many years before the war—and such organisations as the Australia-Soviet Friendship League and the Australian Association of Scientific Workers as "fronts" for their activities. It was revealing to find the following people trying to prevent the former Australian Ambassador to Russia, Mr. J. J. Maloney, from speaking in the Melbourne Town Hall in November, 1946, it being alleged that Mr. Maloney's attack upon the Soviet would be an affront to the Soviet Minister to Australia, who was expected to be in Melbourne for a Communist inspired event at that time. Professor R. M. Crawford, Professor R. D. Wright, Professor G. S. Browne,

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Professor Neill Greenwood, Professor Bernard Heinze, Dean H. T. Langley, Canon F. E. Maynard, Bishop Burgmann, Judge Foster and Judge Dethridge. Whether the above are all "useful innocents" or not, it is difficult to say. But, when we remember what happened in Canada, we are justified in being suspicious.

The following letter, signed by Harold W. Fry of Coogee, Sydney appeared in the "Sydney Morning Herald" of September 17, 1946: "Sir,—In connection with the meeting recently held in Double Bay by the Association of Scientific Workers, at which I was present, I think it is urgent to point out the following facts. When I raised he point, at the meeting, as to whether the Australian Association of Scientific Workers was affiliated with the organisation bearing the same name in Canada, it was admitted that such was the case. The Canadian Association is described in the report of the Royal Commission on the Soviet spy ring in Canada as an instrument in the hands of the Communists—and its leaders, Professor Boyer, Dr. Shugar, and Dr. Veall, were convicted and condemned as Soviet agents. The Association endorsed at the Double Bay meeting a motion to the effect that the Prime Minister be requested to use his influence to obtain the release of Dr. Alan Nunn May, a British scientist who was convicted of having communicated to a foreign power secret scientific information and specimens of uranium, in violation of the Official Secrets Acts, and of a pledge he had signed before his appointment. The Royal Commission report states that Dr. May was a secret and ardent member of the Communist Party." No comment is necessary on the information contained in the above letter.

The issue confronting us is clear: the activities of the secret Communists must be answered by the fullest possible publicity concerning their methods. The Canadian Royal Commission Report is a revelation which we cannot afford to neglect. The British Empire has been marked down for destruction, and our only hope of survival depends upon our efforts to defeat the secret fifth column and all those policies which assist it in its work of destruction.

THE END.

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