COMMUNIST DENIAL NOT TAKEN SERIOUSLY

Chronicle (Levin), 15 May 1947, Page 5

COMMUNIST DENIAL NOT TAKEN SERIOUSLY

Received Wednesday, 7 p.m. SYDNBY, May 14. The Commonwealtli Governmenl. has lakeu action to make certain that tlie construction of the rocket range wili not b.e inipeded by Cominunist opposiiioii. The Government is considering

recailing from Japan the specialist ' Army unit which has been carrying out constructional and maintenance work loi1 the British Gomnionwealth. OccupaLion Porce. if it is brought back this unit will form the nucleus for a sx>ecial .abour force for the project. This step ,s additional to the pians already made to recall the aerourome cuiioirueUoa nnit to work on airiields and barracks at Mount Eba. The Communist Party has performed wliat anti-Comiiiuiiists describe as "anptlier somersault" by issuing a state uient that the ban proposed by the Building Trades Federation, "a trade .u'nion or-ganisation in,no vvay attiliatpd ; lo the Communist Party," lias been aeitlier discussed nor advocated by tiie Party. ' ' YV'e, therefore, unhesitantingly denj the allegations niaile in tlie daily Press and by tlie notorious RightWingers withiu the Labour movement, w-ho are always eager to serve the cause of reaction by inventing new slauuei> of the Communist Party." The statemem adnuts that, "like other people interested in the welfare of the aborigines," the Communists have poiiited out the dangers of rockets to Central Australian tribes, but the demand would be met if it could be shown that there would be no interferenee with tlie aborigines. ' 1 We believc that a black b,an would be a mistaken policy and that the matter should oe resolved by rousing publie o-pinioii and by approaclies to the Federal Government," concludes the statement. ' 1 The Comnu.nists are masters of dissimulation and understand to jierfection the art of concealing tlie direction of their stroke," said the Leader of the (ipposition (Mr. Menzies). "Their record shows tliat they are pro-Russian and anti-British. They appropriated to tiu-mselves the vi»ws of the church-es op ihe rocket range convenienGy forget-( liug that between Communism and Ohristianity there is a .grea1. gi If. All t-liey are now tio ing' is to ra t for cover liehind the lionestly held views of people ' who liave notliing to do witli Communists." _____