BOLSHEVIST INFECTION

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 233, 20 June 1918, Page 5

BOLSHEVIST INFECTION

4 AN ARCHBISHOP'S WARNING. Archbishop Donaldson, in his inaugutal address to tiio Anglican Synod at Brisbane recently, reviewed repent events in Europe. Turning to Australia, toe said that the Labour movement had always been a constructive movement in itself, and was among the cloancst, healthiest, and most hopeful that the world hail seen._ Nevertheless, he desired to emphasise a danger ho saw '.in its path. There was no knowing how far the Bol.fchevik conflagration might spread. Already the Labour Press of Australia had shown signs of infection. Labour, had reached the hour of its temptation. iHe believed it would resist the temptation, but there would have to be a fierce and terrible struggle before it did so. deferring to the danger 'of pacifism, Archbishop Donaldson said he dreaded I lie [pressure of selfish interests when (ho Peace Conference assembled. Referring to the Brisbane Industrial Council's proiposal, he paid that proposal was oxactly ivhat the Bolsheviki tried for at BrestLitovslc. Was anyone in Australia insane enough, ho asked, to wish to lejieat the Bolshevik folly? There was not the slightest hope of coming to any terms with Prussianism short of absolute' surrender, and surrender would mean the Prussianising of the world.