UNITED ACTION
BY THE ALLIED NATIONS ASSISTED BY DISSOLUTION OF COMINTERN. COMMENT BY LONDON “TIMES.” (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, May 24. “The decision to dissolve the Communist International is one of the most important political events of the war,” says “The Times" in a leading article. “It has triumphantly destroyed the last slender ideological basis of the Axis and its satellites in their antiComintern Pact and the last crumbling mainstay of Axis propaganda in the Bolshevik bogy.”
“Unquestionably, the chief immediate significance of the disbanding of the Communist' International is a symbol of the growing unity of purpose between Britain, Russia and the United States,” the paper continues. "Removal of the mistrust which hitherto has been felt in some quarters of the supposedly subversive aims of Russian policy after the war should make easier a frank and ungrudging recognition by Britain and the United States not merely of the right of Russia to play her full part in the rebuilding of Europe but also of the paramount necessity that she should do so if German ambitions are to be permanently checked and a stable settlement attained.
“Now that Russia has given the Allies a dramatic' assurance of her intentions it is doubly important to give her no ground for suspicion that once the victory is gained Britain and the United States will revert to the policy they so fatally pursued after 1918 of attempting to exclude Russia from her rightful place in the organisation of peace and liberty in Europe.
“It is not too much to say that the future of the world turns on the establishment of confidence between Britain, Russia and the United States. In dissolving the Communist International Russia has made a notable contribution to the common purpose.’ COMMUNISTS IN BRITAIN. The “Daily Herald” (Labour organ) asks: “What will be the effect of the dissolution of the Communist International upon the Communist Party in Britain?” and it says: “The logical effect should be that the party should dissolve. It can decide to do so, or it can carry on as a national organisation. If the latter course is adopted will the Communist Party still press for affiliation to the Labour Party?
"It may claim that the dissolution of the Comintern removes the objections to affiliation, but that claim does not hold water. The fundamental objection has been that the Communist Party of Britain has aims which are incompatible with those of our movement. If the Communist Party resolves, in spite of the disappearance of the Comintern,, to continue as a separate organisation, it must obviously still have aims and methods which are incompatible with ours. It is, therefore, ineligible for affiliation.” The "Daily Worker" (Communist Party organ) says: "The achievement of full unity of the democratic peoples in the fight against Fascism and for the progress of mankind is the vital need of the moment, and it is from this standpoint that the historic resolution of the Communist International will be considered.” Extracts from American newspapers cabled to this country (says a British Official Wireless message), reflect a favourable reaction to the dissolution of the Third International. Describing the step as a momentous contribution to the development of political unity among the Allies, the New York “Herald Tribune” says: “The renunciation, carried out with confidence, forms the firmest possible basis for the'unity of the forces opposed to aggression, both now and in peace. It is not too much to say that the United Nations have won their greatest victory in the political sphere.” The Denver “Post” says: “The announcement has removed the political barrier which is the only barrier to closer collaboration between the United States and Soviet Russia.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 May 1943, Page 3
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