CUT AND DRIED BID TO OUST COMMUNISTS

Chronicle (Levin), 18 April 1946, Page 5

CUT AND DRIED BID TO OUST COMMUNISTS

Received Wednesdav, 7 p.m. LONDON, April 1 7. The Labour Party directorate has launched an intensive drive to destroy (lic t'ommunist Party, savs the Daily -Mail. Ilr. Morrison is directing a higlitcnsion canipaign to defeat the Comliiiinist Barty's applieation for artiliatioii which will be eonsidered at the 1-abour Party conf'erence on .June S and make it the final decisive rebulf which Mie'H ^ie Fommunist Party in P'i-xTf -0/y- ' /lour directorate has invited rcpresentatives of tvery social demo••ratic. organishtion in#the Dominions j and Europe, to London before the con-. fcrence to form "an anti-Coniniunisti iiueriiationale. " The liussians were i iioi invited. The Labour directorate | hopes to confront the June conference with the fait aceompli of a Dominion-j Ptiropean alliance in which the alliliatimi of Communists is forbidden. The Communist Party, if applieation is refused, is expected" to disband. -Menibers will join the Labour Party as individuals and seek to obtain coutrol | of key positions in the Labour Party | and trade unions. Authority is to be sought at the i British Labour Party conference in i June to send a British delegation to Bussia for a series of round-table eonferences xvith tlie Communists, to ascertaiirtheir true attitude toward the democracies. Unless tliey have the sauie ideals of dfemocracy and liberty, the formation of an internationale ivonld be very difficult.