CONFIDENTIAL
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(v) On communist schools Mr. Gregg said
that draft legislation was in hand giving additional powers, e.g. over closing schools. Registration was going ahead, mainly in the older labour urban areas where the communists were
now trying to expand. The Department were re-establishing contact and control though this was not quite back to normal. It was now possible for inspectors to sit in at classes in communist schools instead of a police
operation being required. There was now a place for all at primary schools at a reasonable fee; when the fees were reduced in September he expected the communist schools to reduce theirs in step. In some respects he was more
worried about the infiltration of communists in
government schools than about the communist
schools themselves.
CONFIDENTIAL
Whorch
(J. O. Moreton) 26 March 1969.