the Malayan Communist Party, and not as operations by Government against mere banditry.
In Malaya, however,
or
publicity should avoid writing-up international Communism
emphasising the role which the Malayan Communist Party is
playing in a world-wide Communist movement. The line should be
that in Malaya Communism is not acceptable to the peoples of the country who are indeed overwhelmingly opposed to it. The
Communists themselves have put themselves out of Court in
Malaya on three grounds;
(1) They are a small and mostly alien minority seeking to
impose their ideas against the wishes of the great
majority in the country
(ii) they are attempting to do this by violent means,
contrary to all democratic, constitutional and
lawful practice
(iii)
their violence is of a most morbid type consisting of
intimidation, extortion and murder, and they have
achieved nothing but death, destruction and distress.
The same line should apply, with due local modification,
in North Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei as well as in the
8.
Federation of Malaya and Singapore.
9. This paper is being conveyed by the Foreign office to
its posts, as appropriate, and by the Colonial Office to the
Governments of the South East Asia dependencies.