DO WE TAKE REDS SERIOUSLY ENOUGH?
“There is one matter which I believe is not regarded seriously enough in New Zealand, and that is the Communist menace,” said Mr A. P. O’Shea, general secretary of Federated Farmers at Opotiki recently. “Any traveller on the Continent cannot fail to be somewhat alarmed at political developments. When people are hungry of course they will grasp at anything, and the Communist advocate finds people willing enough to sell their freedom for a promise even a valueless one, of food. For that reason I believe that New Zealand should bend all the energy it can muster towards m food production. Conditions in Italy are a perfect example of the fertile ground which hungry people provide for Corhmunist propaganda. Every extra ounce of food which we produce in New Zealand counts in this battle for the Communists are telling the people of the Continent that they can feed them and that Democracy can’t. It is a matter which should cause us all to think.”
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 55, 14 June 1948, Page 5
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169DO WE TAKE REDS SERIOUSLY ENOUGH? Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 55, 14 June 1948, Page 5
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