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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 Halayan 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 them- selves out of Court in Malaya on three grounds;

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They are a small and mostly alien minority seeking to impose their ideas against the wishes of the great majority in the country

(11) they are attempting to do this by violent

means, contrary to all democratic, constitutional and lawful practice

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their violence is of a most morbid type consisting of intimidation, extortion and murder, and they have achieved nothing but death, destruction and diatress .

The same line should spbly, with due local modification, in Worth Borneo, Sarawak and Brunel as well as in the Federation of Malaya and Singapore.

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You and information addressees will no doubt now arrange for due guidance to be tactfully given to the press and other publicity media.

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Foreign Office would be grateful if this telegram could be passed to H.M. Representatives at Rangoon, Bangkok, Saigon, Batavia and Manille. It is being repeated to Governor Hong Kong for information.

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YTULANKIMILAKONIS ZIYASWOLDADORS MANDUOLAIKIN ACNEN ADDEDORE

J.H. Watson, tr. R.H. Scott.

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Mr. Walsh Atkins.