Spanner in works

Communism foiled

"Tanzania is virtually a Red Chinese beach-head—the Cuba of East Africa," said Mr. Eric Butler, Director of the Australian League of Rights.

"There are 100,000 Red Chinese trained terrorists in Zambia ready to cross into Rhodesia," asserted Mr. Butler in an address On "The Communist Conspiracy" in Wellington recently.

Mr. Butler, whose organisation is one of the furthest right in Australia, has supported Sir Oswald Mosley, Lincoln Rockwell. Dr. Verwoerd and Ian Smith. He opposes among other things, artificial fertilisers. Churchill, Salk vaccine, the Common Market and Communism.

This conspiracy, he claimed, was trying to seize the whole of Africa in order to control the trade route around the Cape of Good Hone. "Cuba," he said, "is taking care of the Panama Canal."

Describing the mass migrations to the south and the failure of northern African "democracies," he said "Africa north of Zambezi is slipping back into a charnel house worse than that found, by Livingston and others."

Identifying himself with "decent moral Christian persons," he described Rhodesia as "a law-abiding country, while 'liberated' Africa is in a blood-bath."

"In no other Dart of the world," he asserted, "have the indigenous population been so well looked after by the Europeans as in Rhodesia."

In his view Rhodesia was a bastion against the spread of Communism in Africa. Mr. Butler said "Rhodesia has thrown one of the biggest spanners into the works of the Communist Global Strategy." He said that opinions to the contrary were the result of Mr. Wilson's "brainwashing," which he compared to Adolph Hitler's technique of the big lie often repeated.

New Zealand and Australia have not sent independent fact-finding missions to Rhodesia because they are afraid their envoys would return with a favourable report, he said.

Mr. Butler spoke mainly about Rhodesia, and had little to say about the Communist Conspiracy.

His speech was frequently interrupted by a voluble group of interjectors, who were described by the Chairman, Mr. Fairlie Currie, late of the National Party, as "Red Guards."