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World Shadow Over Islands Enterprise

r a world where increasing popu lations are desperately short of h consumer and capital goods, re would appear to be abundant •ortunities for enterprise. That lies especially to the nearly empty undeveloped Islands of the South ific.

'et the apparent opportunities are rushed. Men inspect, and hesitate come away, uncommitted, lions of pounds, which should be ding new wealth and jobs and ling big rewards, lie idle in the ks, or are lent to Governments around 3 per cent. Ask those zerned why, and they answer either icertainty” or “Bloody politics”! ecause of the creations of man i’s genius, mankind to-day should mjoying such plenty, and security happiness as humanity never be : has known. Instead, all the ons live in a state of suspended 3r. They see the mounting pre vious for World War III; and, t is worse, the evidence of an

•logical struggle so far-reaching,

so bitter and uncompromising, their commonsense tells them e can be neither peace nor com until one side or the other has i defeated.

War I was a clash of rival

erialisms. Political incompetence

fumbling led the nations into Id War 11, which began as a est between,rival ideologies, and 5d as a plain struggle for

survival—in which the befuddled West, while destroying the Hitler form of Totalitarianism, let loose upon humanity the Stalin form of the same creed.

WITH a blindness and stupidity almost incredible, the Western politicians in 1945 ran away from their responsibilities, disarmed, and threw the nations, already battered and bleeding, into the clutches of the Muscovite Reds. Within five years, the diabolical cleverness of the Communist plan for the enslavement of humanity became apparent.

It is in three sections. The already enslaved nations behind the Iron Curtain are forced to work for supreme armament. Millions of Moscow’s secret agents, taking advantage of the Western creed of liberty for the individual, have in filtrated into all the Western nations, to weaken those nations from within by the maximum amount of political, social and economic disruption.

Meanwhile, the countless millions of Asia are being “Bolshevised”, organised under Moscow direction, armed, and turned against the West.

Moscow believes that, with this plan, ‘Capitalism” will collapse in ruins even before we are called upon to fight in a formal World War 111.

It looks as if Moscow is right: the politico-economic demoralisation of the West proceeds at a terrifying pace.

s J n h £ h e , SSSJS to f<Mk" who C a re Column among the Western Nations while among the Westerners there is not a single institution, organisation or government of any importance— with the great Church and one fraternal order—with sufficient spirit and courage to stand up and defy the black cloud that now hangs over all of us Even if a miracle occurs and the Western peoples forget ’ their squabbling politics and unite against this dreadful threat to their liberty and the decencies of life the Reds are readv and eauinned tn from a rold to a hofwar We have been re-arming for two years in a muddled way 8 but the and

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stringing the nations’ efforts to defeat the cold war and prepare for World War 111.

Australia is only one of a score of countries similarly bedevilled; but Australia is typical. There, a Government of almost hopelessly incompetent politicians is trying, honestly enough, to deal with traitors within, while aligning the country in a plan of Western defence. But they are being embarrassed and defeated at almost every turn primarily by Socialist organisations based on trade-unions which refuse to give up any privileges or plans for the sake of national defence. The latter are officially anti-Communist in fact, they are hunting the Reds out of the leadership of many trade unions but, being semi-literate and uninformed, they do not realise that the menace to themselves is far greater than it was in 1914 or 1939; and so their actions are dominated by the most petty considerations of party, class and section.

Thus beset, the unhappy Government of Australia is blundering along, trying to measure wartime nrohlems with a nparetimp varHstirkprooiems wun a peacetime yardstick, trying to apply rules made under freedom conditions to economic problems created by the system of .. 1 , t r / national controls, trying to frame workable policies on principles enunciated by “expert” planners, who 1 \ a contradict each other savagely at every turn; and gathering public disfavour all the time aisiavour an me time.

I hat IS Australia; but it IS completely typical to-day of Britain, France and most of the Western .. T . • .l * , , nations- It IS tnc most hopeless prospect ever seen in our Western prn Ttip rail i« fnr rlpar thinkino era. me call is tor clear thinking, ruthless leadership and great spilltual Strength, None is in sight.

rpHE Muscovites believe that our A system will collapse in de moralisation, and Red Totalitarianism will take over. Maybe that is why World War 111 does not come.

But there may be other reasons.

The two great protagonists, USA and Russia, are deeply preoccupied with internal matters. Stalin, the arch traitor and bloody-handed murderer who betrayed us all in the post-war era, is now dying of heart disease in his home near the Black Sea, and the Kremlin is torn by contestants for Red leadership. In contrast with the tigerish struggle in Moscow United States is staging a gigantic circus in Chicago, while it also seeks a new leader. Poor old humanity is not impressed by the spectacle of either Moscow or Chicago, Here, briefly listed, are some of the outstanding events and develop ments of the month—bubbles on the surface of the hellish international brew which the Communists are cooking for their purpose—and our confusion: — • The recent attempt by thousands of Cairo rioters to oijerthrow the Egyptian monarchy and government was organised and directed by Red emissaries with headquarters in the Polish Embassy in Cairo, • A !t nsat ™ n J^ as C j U^ d T when Father Tondi, aged 44, absconded from his place near the head of the Jesuit Order, and openly joined the Com munist Party. After special training by Communists in Russia, he joined the Order 16 years ago as a spy, and slowly worked his way into very important circles close to the Vatican. He was forced out by an inquiry (which is con . tinuing) set afoot following a suspicion of treasonable organisation within the

Vatican. ,

• Because of Britain’s inability to pay her way—the combined result of wartime losses, failure to hold overseas trade and five years’ Socialism—there is talk of further devaluation of the £ sterling, 0 French politicians are trying to undermine the government of M. Pinay,

the only man who has succeeded in halt ing France’s steady slide into politico economic chaos. 6 Following under-cover organisation there have been public demonstrations ini Greece against Britain, because Britain i will not surrender Cyprus (her vital!

East Mediterranean base) to Greece. • Developments in Persia since the extremists there drove out the British; and the huge Anglo-Persian oil establish ment are daily bringing Persia nearer' Russia and farther away from the West.. • Because of Communist penetration ofl Near and Middle East, the Vatican is; trying to promote a rapprochementi between Roman Catholicism and Islam,, on the ground that both hate Communismi and both want religions freedom. • France and Britain are gravely em barrassed by the costliness and com parative lack of success of their respective; campaigns in Indo-China and Malaya..

The Korean campaign is bogged downi behind endless Communist “truce talks’’.. • Russian sensitivity in the Baltic— where two Swedish planes were shot down by Red fighters—is due to the; establishment by Russia on the Latvian! and Esthonian coasts of huge, ramp-like constructions and electrical installations..

They are guarded by ceaseless Russian! air patrols, and their purpose is com pletely unknown. • Big riots in Japan and smaller dis turbances in West Germany were promoted by Communists in an attempt toe counteract the Western success in aligning those two powerful nations with the W’esfi against Moscow.

All these apparently disconnected

events are part of the Red pattern ofl world disturbance. * * * * There is much talk of native wel

fare, economic development, new*

administrative plans in all the Terri

tories of the South Pacific. These

cannot be expected to make much

progress while an explosive and;

dangerous world situation exists. The

danger will not be removed until

the ideological struggle ceases. That

struggle will not cease while the anti*

Red world is prevented by sectional;

hates from uniting against the

Muscovite conspirators.

Fijian

Rugby

Footballers

A photograph of the Fijian Rugby football repre sentatives who ares currently touring[?] NSW and Queensland, with Fiji Rugby Union officials. The photograph was taken shortly before they left Suva.

Caine’s Studios.