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Hokitika Guardian, 1 February 1926, Page 2

Among the activities of the Communist Party in Britain one of the quietest, but perhaps not the least interesting is that which has for some time been carried on at Oxford with the object of forming ?i revolutionary

group among Indian undergraduates. The line of approach was through two white undergraduates who have been engaged in secret, propaganda among them, and some little time ago believed that they had made an impression on certain members of the Majliss, or Society of Indians at Oxford. But they were extremely cautious in their preaching, preferred to work through debates in the Majliss. or conversations with selected men. and were convinced of the need foi absolute secrecy. So much so that they were driven to arrange that Indian members should be shown on the party lists under (false) English names, and should be kept quite apart from local work in England. Their efforts also ineludetl a study of the anteceents of each likely convert and of his views as to Indian politics; and schemes for his education in Communist doctrine by means of literature imported from abroad and distributed in a discreet way. As the upshot, a Queensland Rhodes Scholar. Air F. It. Stephenson, a second year pupil, was recently requested by the Proctors to give a written guarantee within fortyeight hours to cease propaganda among the Indians. He signed the guarantee saying he did not wish suddenly to discontinue his studies in the School of Philosophy. Politics and Economics, but ho declared that the authorities wore very conservative.