.F, Hill, former member of the Political Committee and Central Secretariat of the Communist Party of Australis, denounced the test ban treaty on his return from a visit to China and Japan. Hill, the leader of the *Chinese! faction of the Australian C.F,, was denounced in the Soviet ‘open letter' of July 14th. ‘Ye quote from the Hsinhua report of the mesting:
",..eHill was speaking at a reception held in his honour in the Melbourne Trades Hall on August 20, arranged by the Building Yorkers Union, the reception was attended by more than 100 members of trade unions ,including officials representing about 30 unions...... He said that the treaty "does not reduce the threat of wary it doos not stop the manufacturing of miclear weapons, It fools the people. It is not a step towards peace but a step towards war because, unless it is exposed, it can weaken the vigilance of the poopie,"
"The Chinese criticisms of the treaty were in the intoresta of the Australian people,he said. Hoe added, "We, along with the Chinese, beliove that nuclear weapons must be struck right out of the hands of the imperialists, stockpiles destroyed, the manufacture and use of muclear weapons totally prohibited just as poison gas was."
"He spoke in detail of China's achievements in sopialist construc— tion and refuted the slanders that China was "warlike" and “aggressive.”