Evening star., 1949-03-20

the brlClSn commonwealth LII III
A "task force" of high oflci
q long trip to discuss with the chi
the matter of common defense
of the Soviet Union in a part OF
the world whose Importance can
not be overestimated, because 1t
contains basic raw materials.
These officials will carry with
them the message that unless the
nations which once comprised the
British Empire stick together they
will risk losing everything they
have gained.
India, of course, is the key to
the, edifice of the commonwealth:
It is to that country that the
persuasive efforts of the British
spokesmen will be directed. Hav-
ing Just obtained independence,
the Indian people and their GOV
ernment naturally are jealous Of
their new-won sovereignty and
reluctant to agree to anything
that could be regarded. even by
Implication, as interference with
their rights.
Communist Alarm
However, Prime Minister Java
harlal Nehru already has become
concerned over the activities OF
the Communists in his country.
The numerically unimportant
Communist Party has adopted the
same methods employed by Com
munists in other parts OF the
world to impose their will.
They have infiltrated the labor
unions, which are too young and
too unsure of themselves to play
properly their essential role In
the national life. In the Indian
subcontinent and in other parts
of the South Pacific and Indian
Ocean areas-Indo-C China, Ma
laya, Burma, Indonesia, Siam and
China itself-the labor unions are
utilized by the Soviets for their
own end, which is the creation OF
chaos and confusion.
The activities of Communist
agents in the Far East have been
more carefully watched by the
British than by ourselves. Nobody
In Britain fell for the myth, ac-
cepted by so many high officials
of the United States, that the
Chinese Communists were nothing
but agrarian reformers who had
nothing but a tenuous theological
tie with Moscow.
While we CLOSED over the
violent outbursts in Indo-Chlna
Malaya. Burma and Indonesia as
the inevitable growing pains" OF
new countries, or regarded them
as the effects of British. French
and Dutch imperialisms, Western
Europeans realized that they were
the evidence of Russia's intrigue
in those vast areas, which was the
result of q definite plan formu-
lated by the Politburo in Moscow.
Aim is Disaster
The u. s. s. r., trained veteran
observers of world politics say,
does not aim actually to incor-
porate the Far East into the Soviet
system, but 1t does aim to organize
the Asiatics into one or several
proups wholly sympathetic with
and subject to Moscows domlna-
ton.
For the present. schemers in the
Kremlin plan only to create chaos
throughout Asiatic areas. The
men of the Politburo have
no constructive policy regarding
Asia, as they do with respect tc
Germany and the satellite states
The only purpose they have is te
create disaster by means OF civil
strife, sabotage and other devices
of social and political obstruction
Their aim Is to deprive the West
Aof strategic materials - rubber
bauxite, oil, etc.-which are de-
yeloped in abundant quantities In
Asiatic areas.
This explains the present hope
less guerrilla warfare which RACES
in Malaga and Burma, as well as
the activities of Moscow-tralneo
natives in Indonesia and the Phil
ippines.
Because American attention is
focused on the intensified colo
war in Europe, we pay little II any
attention to the drama across the
Pacific. We have only sketchy
reports about battles which have
been going on in Malaga for nearly
a wear and which have become so
severe that the British had to
send reinforcements to cope with
the Russian trained guerrllla
leaders in the Malay Peninsula
Dutch Clamp Down
Seldom do we hear about the
bloody encounters which occur
frequently throughout India
where Communist agents, infiltrat'
ed through the young Indian Ia
bor unions, are promoting strikes
ostensibly to improve the lot o.
the Indian workmen, but actually
for the purpose of precipitatine
armed conflicts with the author
tiles.
The bulk of American citizens
showed undisguised indignatlor
last December when the Neither
lands government. aware tha'
Communists who had bored intt
the Indonesian Republican gov
eminent were attempting to make
1t the tool Of Moscow, clampee
down on that effort.
Americans were moved by hon.
est ideologies when we became
angered at the "reactionary ane
high-handed methods" OF tht
Dutch government and failed tt
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