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It is important to stress Russian attempts to dominate and exploit China; but for the present blame should be laid on

the Kremlin.

7.

For the sake of world opinion it is desirable to represent the struggle in Malaya as being directed against the Malayan Communist Party, and not as operations by Government against mere banditry. In Malaya, however, publicity should avoid writing-up international Communism, or 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:

(i)

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; and

B.

(111)

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 modifica- tion, in North Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei, as well as in the 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.

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