Defend peace-defeat Menzies. 3 p. foolscap manuscript. [1957?] [from the collection of W. H. Tregear]

This appears to be the manuscript of a speech, written in point form, with the recurrent theme, "Defeat Menzies". On the back of it is a list, possibly the agenda for a meeting. Item 1 is "Defeat Menzies".

It begins, "Report by EFH [i.e. E. F. Hill] to CC [i.e. the Central Committee] 13/14/15 Dec. 1957", and ends with an assessment of the ALP and the "spreading of pessimism"; and the danger of "revisionism" within the Communist party. This includes the following underlined sections,

No-one will pretend the masses in Australia are in a great ferment, but there is an awakening, events do not pass Australia by. Our job is to influence the situation.

Danger of revisionism! Still remnants of revisionist elements. Those people with anti-Soviet anti-party views - these in the logic of history, get more anti-Party, more anti-Soviet.

Bill Tregear was Hill's Secretary.