Communist Blueprint for Asia (Western Mail, 18 Aug 1949)

=== [PDF page 1] === Western Mail (Perth, WA: 1885 - 1954), Thursday 18 August 1949, page 10 The are Australian seen strike banditry and cohesive Red plan coal part Malaya SINGAPORE: Sixteen named Yugoslav later, with months ago Dusan Puhalo deportation tag was Twenty-four hours Singapore. baggage he WARNER DENIS from landed For Asia Blueprint Communist his way his home. of a story at the time. heard of Dusan Few people had ever idea that his Puhalo; fewer had any the first real deportation, in effect, was It was British not much counter-shot against Communism in East Asia. back late 1947, by U.S. and in the west Asia with East association Puhalo's Dusan dates Moscow, baulked when British determination, switched their ideological attack to the soft and exposed East. Until then Communism had of Cancer ous. There tion and was largely local and armies Indo-China and uprising carried assistance direction from The countries. China nationalistic spontanenoticeable lack of central direccoordination between Communist dormant; been East of Suez and South were more less Indonesia inevitable without international special Communism. Australians at Vital Talks National Library of Australia http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39095389 === [PDF page 2] === Western Mail (Perth, WA: 1885 - 1954), Thursday 18 August 1949, page 10 (2) (COORDINATION, Moscow knew, was the key of her plans for East Asia. and Students' ConferA South-East Asia Youth at Calcutta, ence 1948, was set for February, to full achievement for overcoming therefore selected as the means for organisation. this deficiency in world Here sit at first time, Moscow the Communists could a conference table with representatives from every East Asia. country International from the Union of Students and the World Federation of widely not too Trades Unions-good names, Communist known organisations-gave the its respectability. air of The repreconference sentatives were: Jean Lautissier, France; Joseph Brickman, Czechoslovakia; Carmel Groman, Britain; and Vidya Karniga, India. Four representatives Australia, Burma, The Communist Party in Ceylon, China, India, Indonesia, Korea, Pakistan, Philippines the Vietnam supplied the and "guests." one woman The real "delegates," the men-and dictate discuss were and not to -who; came ally, trusted Soviet the the then from Union and have the list of "guests" and "Delegates" in front, of me.; And because they all heard the plan for Eastern revolution and, beyond reasonable countries, doubt, carried the word to their own their námes are are: worth recording. They Australia, Kathleen Bacon; Hla Burma, Bon Myaing, Aung <jyi, Baideau K Cheng alias Chen Ceylon, D. T. E. Mana.niperi;.China, Sung Wei Ming, Sen Shiú Hwa; India, Sátyapal Dang, A. Bhattacharya; Indonesia, Francisca Fanggidaej; Korea; An Kyang Ki; Malaya^ Lee Soortg; Pakistan, Shams ul Maq; Philippines, Eniique Joaquin; Vietnam, Nguyen Duy Cuong, Le Tam, Mai The Pai; Chan. The U.S.S.R. sent three delegates-A. Kharma In addiMarasova. V. Dranov arid Tamara lor, National Library of Australia http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39095389 === [PDF page 3] === Western Mail (Perth, WA: 1885 - 1954), Thursday 18 August 1949, page 10 (3) tion to Dusan represented Puhalo, Yugoslavia was arid Vladimir Dédier. Zogovic by Radova Unofficial guests also attended least paroutside the meetings conducted conAustralian, the ference proper. They included like Dusan Sharkey, who Puhalo, later1 came Singapore (unlike Puhalo, however, Sharkey spent ticipated many Party leaddays with Malayan Communist ers). British patrol the part of hunt The Malayan bandits in a Malayan village. of this article. plan for East Asia, states the author for Communist Communist "revolution" What instructions the "guests" received were of speculation. They longer just a matter East Asia; that told to get on with revolution with the Imthe rallying cry should be "down perialists, down with Britain, France and Holland, National Library of Australia http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39095389 === [PDF page 4] === Western Mail (Perth, WA: 1885 - 1954), Thursday 18 August 1949, page 10 (4) with Chiang with the United States, down Kai-shek, the tool of the Imperialists." "People's be established Democratic Republics" were lines. countries where Soviet along revolution objective the immediate republic appeared establishment the Party, union the capacity of the beyond strikes indusand control and the promotion of trial unrest was to be coupled with cooperation with neighbouring parties. down of Strikes A Rash "guests," fully instructed, left to carry home fHE their Dusan Reaction followed immediately; briefs. Puhalo, with the Burmese Within weeks, Tvrnmnted delegates, flew Pnhalr/s strike* oratory,, a rash of the struggling tied up (it got its young country independence only Before January, 1948). the end of March, Tha kiari Than Tun and H. Bengali, N. Goshal, the White taken had Flag Communists SHARKEY (the under Party) Moscow ground. the situation in With Burma developing according to plan, Puhalo flew Si i nt» sinnt" National Library of Australia tl ic ct cn; http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39095389 === [PDF page 5] === Western Mail (Perth, WA: 1885 - 1954), Thursday 18 August 1949, page 10 (5) but word of the Calcutta instructions had already been carried by the Malayan Comrepresentative at the confermunist Party's own Lee Soong. and able Chinese named ence, a young Well educated and the son of prosperous parents, Youth Movement Lee led the Chinese Communist in Singapore after the war. brief; was Back from Calcutta, and probably aided revolution. the doctrine spread Sharkey, Lee A meeting of the Central Executive of the Party, called to hear his report, decided to close the port of Singapore as a prelude to armed revolt. expected to wreck Singapore economy This was and to confine the Army to the island, leaving for major upthe Malayan Peninsula wide open rising. April 15 was the date set for opening the campaign. British authorities got word of the plot on April On April 14 the Singapore Government against a number warrants sued banishment police took Communist union leaders, and the action on the same day by raiding the premises of the Harbour Labour Union and the Singapore Vehemently violence were seditious advocating pamphlets lists full well found, as of names of members of the Communist Protection corps. their forces, Singapore Workers' the atCommunists tempted to strike back through the remains of their Chinese Indian Protection Corps. and in a big rubber factory and Sabotage by arson the throwing of grenades the Harbour Board Rallying followed. But this prelude to revolution in Malaya failed. action left the Army free to aid situation was Federation police, and the Prompt police the under control by the time the Malayan Communist Party began its Malayan "revolution fairly National Library of Australia http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39095389 === [PDF page 6] === Western Mail (Perth, WA: 1885 - 1954), Thursday 18 August 1949, page 10 (6) Military defeats, or, more correctly,, only minor terrorist have not caused the Malayan successes, policy the Communist from Party to deviate A recent "Outline of the enunciated at Calcutta. People's Democratic Republic of the Malayan Party" declares that the independent Communist and "All-races equal" Malayan People's Democratic Republic, and Singapore amalgamating after entity, will be established Malaya into one the British Imperialists have been driven out political their military, and economic Malaya and their have that underlings feudal influence and been thoroughly eliminated through uniting and mobilising the strength of the people all Malaya. The Communist proposed Malaya-bearing a constitution 1949 date-calls for a dictatorship of the "Unified All-Malaya Central People's Assembly," to be brought about by expropriating the "British Imperialists." The constitution blue-printed from the Calcutta directives. Chinese Reds Show Their Hand *1£HE China sequel to Calcutta caught the world headlines. widely known What the Communists did too repetition. Under what the Chinese Comhowever, munists said. No longer is there any pretence at agrarian reform. Nor is Mao Tse-tung even mere remote cousin to Tito. warant publicised, Mao Tse-tung came out frankly for revolution- Communism. Stalin In a message to thirty-first November 1948, the anniversary of said: Revolution, the Bolshevik ary After the victory of the Second World War, American Imperialism and its running dogs (a National Library of Australia http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39095389 === [PDF page 7] === Western Mail (Perth, WA: 1885 - 1954), Thursday 18 August 1949, page 10 (7) Chinese and Korean term of contempt) in varicountries replaced Fascist Germany, Italy ous and Japan and are frenziedly preparing a new world war menacing the whole world. They reflect the extreme capitalist rottenness of the its and world panic in the face of impending Mftinrtinn. He acknowledged Soviet leadership and called for the advance of Communist revolution on front. world-wide "fpIE blueprint for the People's Democratic Republic of Australia, like the blueprint for revolutionary government Malaya, the Philippines and Korea, came to East Asia in a Soviet attache case/' writes Denis Warner, special correspondent in East Asia. "The bandit's gun Malaya and the Australian coalfields general directive." the miner's strike spring from the same article, written from clasIn this documented sified information gathered in Japan, Korea, the Philippines and Singapore, Warner presents for the first Communist 1948, and time authentic of the account at Calcutta in February, conference revolutionary its aftermath. In North Korea, An Kyang Ki reported on the Calcutta conference to Kim ll Sung, president of the already established People's Republic of North Korea. The plan here was not to overthrow the existing internal government but to carry the war south of the 38th parallel to Syngman Rhee's American running dogs. Aided, involuntarily, by two members of a United Nations Commission who were quoted as having described the Americans as controlling a National Library of Australia http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39095389 === [PDF page 8] === Western Mail (Perth, WA: 1885 - 1954), Thursday 18 August 1949, page 10 (8) "police state," North Rhee, an extreme Korea immediately began a vigorous propaganda barrage. Arms passed over increasing quantities for Southern the border Communists, and late in April, 1948, the Americans, under Lt.-Gen. John captured Hodge iii Communist for revolution the South, deplan signed to coincide with the elections-the first in the country's history-early in May. Two weeks of terrorism, murder and violence on a scale unprecedented in modern Korea ended when Syngman rightist, swept the polls. But that is far from the end of the story. The Russian-trained, Russian-equipped Army of the People's Republic of Northern Korea awaits only the signal and the country will be embroiled in in which there is only one a civil war possible outbloody Communist victory and the establishment of a "People's Democratic Republic" for come; ali Korea. Philippines and JplLIPINO Indonesia Communists showed even more clearly the influence of an external authority. With the death of Manuel Roxas, an implacable of Communism, and the succession of Elpi enemy dio Quirino to the presidency, the Philippine Government experimented with a "soft" policy towards the Hukbalahaps, who, like the Chinese Communists, began agrarian reformists, Quirino proclaimed a general amnesty and the Hukbalahaps Plain and the out of the mountains came considerable numbers, surrendering Pampanga their arms willing and appearing genuinely settle their problems over stead of along the sights After Emique Joaquin Luis Fame, National Library of Australia conference rifle. reported on Hakbalahap leader, who table Calcutta, had taken http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39095389 === [PDF page 9] === Western Mail (Perth, WA: 1885 - 1954), Thursday 18 August 1949, page 10 (9) leader, his who had taken the House again of Representatives, into price the disappeared mountains with a new his head. The terror went on, culminating last May in the brutal assassination Mrs. seat Quezon. Vietnam had little to learn from Calcutta. its three representatives could extol their Rather, less successful revolutionary comrades to follow their example. For under the leadership of 57* year-old Ho Chi Minn, this Indo-China State had fought an unending yet highly successful war with the French. There is little in the dossier of Francisca Fang gidae, of Indonesia, to indicate the true nature of It is not safe to assume his politics. that he was, Communist. The Republican leaders of aid, Indonesia have not welcomed Communist knowing that with Independence goes along movements only for its own purposes. The elimination of colonial Powers from south East Asia is, however, part of Indonesian policy; "Cominform" Sydñey part in the East Asian conspirAUSTRALIA'S probably better appreciated by gasless acy expatriate, and heatless Melbourne than by an who has spent only two years of the last nine in his own Even before the Calcutta country. conference, however, there was proof that Australian Communists unmistakable their duty saw outside as well as inside Australia. In the Philippines in 1945, I obtained copies of Communist pamphlets printed in Sydney and distributed in Manila. At that time the American authorities, preparing to turn over the country to the Filipinos in July, 1946, were greatly not concerned. counter-intelliIn January, 1947, an American the information gence agent in Tokyo passed on that what amounted to a miniature South-East Asian Cominform had been established in National Library of Australia http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39095389 === [PDF page 10] === Western Mail (Perth, WA: 1885 - 1954), Thursday 18 August 1949, page 10 (10) Asian Cominform had been established in Sydney. To avoid compromising the source of the information by writing the story with Tokyo dateline, *1 cabled the information confidentially to Australian Associated Press-Reuter in Sydney. Subsequently the Australian Press was informed and the Tokyo facts generally substantiated were from official sources. More significantly, Moscow Radio, not given to the praise of the democracies, twice mentioned the Australian "workers" in favourable terms in broadcasts directed to Korea. Then in April of this year, on yet another visit told by high Philippine Govern to Manila, 1 was Koreans, carrying Phyongyang. o! Stalin and of their candidate Russian-trained, Russian-equipped Army only the signal and the country will be portraits "The National Library of Australia for people's committee, demonstrate the People's Republic of North Korea awaits civil in a embroiled war." http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39095389 === [PDF page 11] === Western Mail (Perth, WA: 1885 - 1954), Thursday 18 August 1949, page 10 (11) MAO TSE-TUNG and this was the primary objective of the Calcutta the conference. Nor was collaboraconception of tion with neighbouring parties new Communist to the Indonesians. Earlier-before the British forces moved into Malaya at the end of the war visited Kuala Soekarno Lumpur and conferred with Malayan Communist Party leaders, doubtless with the idea of coordiaction nating the two tion against colonial Powers. But subsequent by the Republicans of Communist Indonesia, including Amir execuleaders in Sjarifoeddin, finally the dividing line between the Republicans Party, and it is safe to say and the Communist today that the Indonesian Independence moveis neither Comment CommunisMnspired nor munist-controlled. drew National Library of Australia http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39095389 === [PDF page 12] === Western Mail (Perth, WA: 1885 - 1954), Thursday 18 August 1949, page 10 (12) ment officials that Communist pamphlets originating in Sydney, had again been discovered in tho Philippines. Here in Singapore, British authorities report that the Malayan Communist was Party-before principal outlawed-looked to Australia friend. partly brought about by Eng(This was lish snubs at an Empire conference in London). Chinese crews, arriving from Australia, have carried pamphlets of a similar nature and origin to those found Manila. There even strong suspicion that some Australian arms and ammunitheir tion have found way into the hands of Comguerrillas. munist scene That is the East-Asian Communist developed from the Calcutta conference room. The bandit's gun in Malaya and the miner's strike on the Australian coalfield spring from the same general directive. blueprint for the The People's Democratic Republic of Australia, like the blueprint for revolutionary government identical Malaya, the Philippines and Korea with that which Dusan Puhalo and Tamara Mara carried to Calcutta in February, 1948. sova This plan is already half achieved. And only sixteen months. the sixteen What next will bring about months largely a matter for still free peoples of Asia and the support they the can win from the world forces of anti-Communism. National Library of Australia http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39095389