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ANY PRICE1 TO FLIRT WITH THE REDS AT THE SAME TIME AS THEY DECLARE THEMSELVES TO BE NATIONALlSTS AND PATRIOTS• OR AM I TO UNDERSTAND T~~T THE PRO·COMMUNIST OR COMMUNIST MALAGASY WISH THAT OUR 
OWN COUNTRY SHOULD UNDERGO FOR ONE DAY THE : SAD CZECHOSLOVAK EXPERIENCE?" 
"AS FOR MYSELF1" SAID PRESIDENT TSlRANANA IN CONCLUDING TH~ DECLl'RATlON THAT HE MADE · TO BEGIN BRACKETS A MAL~GASV CORRES• PONOENT END BRACKETS IN HIS OFFICE1 "t SAY THiT IT ~S DANGERO~S TO GO ALONG WITH THE COMMUNISTS•" 
"I AM MORE THAN EVER FIERCELY AGAINST COMMUNISM AND1 I BELIEVE 
THAT THE MAJORITY OF MAL~GASY1 I BELIEVE THAT OUR COMPATRlOfS 
WHO ARE TRULY JEALOUS OF OUR NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY AND WHO iR~. 
F!RMLY ATTACHED TO OUR PRINCIPLES OF LIBERTY AND DEMOCR~CY WlTHlN 
TME TRUE INDEPENDENCE TO WHICH ALL ' PEOPLES OF THE WORlD HAVE A 
RlGHT1 THINK AS I 001 SINCE IT IS UNTHINl<ABL.E TH~T· llN THE ·NAME 0, THE COMMUNIST SYSTEM1 WHICH IS NOTHING MORE THAN T~E RIGHT. 
OF THE STRONG~ST)1 IN THE MIDDLE OF TME 20TH CENTURY ANO IN. 
DEF~ANCE OF TH~ lNT£RNAT]ONAL CONSCIENCE~ A GRE~T ANO CIVl~IlED 
COUNTRY SHOULD OCCUPY A LITTLE COUNTRY THE BE~TER TO SUBJUGATE 
IT AND DICTATE ITS OWN WILL~ WHEN THIS llTTlE COUNTRY HAS NO 
OTHER FAULTS TH~N THE WISH TO ESCAPE FROM TM£ COMMUNIST STRANGLE• 
MOLD~ TO ESTABLISH FREEL¥ THE DEMOCRATIC S1STE"•" 
TO EMPHASIZE THE PRESIDENf •S WORDS THE MA~GASV CORRESPONDENT 
S~ID THAT THE PRESIOENr IS FOLLOWING WITH GRE~T ATTENTION 'THE 
DEWEL.DPMENT OF THIS CRIStS WHICH PIT CZ£tHDSLOVAKIA A6~INST 
TMJ SO¥t!r UNION ANO THE O~M£R MEMBER ST~TES OF THE WARS~W 
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