1979 Malta Going Communist Under President Buttigieg and P

Malta going Communist under Premiere Mintoff & President Buttigieg

[Mintoff Buttigieg Regime]

Daily American

Friday, June 8, 1979

Malta Going Communistic

Henry J.Taylor

Malta strategically vital to the United States in the
Mediterranean gained independence from Britain last April 1. But Malta has gone
Red.

President Anton Buttigieg hoisted Malta's red and white
flag, fireworks crashing, church bells ringing and 330,000 Maltese cheered
Britain's abandonment of its 179-year link.

A sailor from HMS "London," which sailed the next
day, lowered the Union Jack. However, Britain and her NATO allies agreed to pay
Malta $28 million annually for military facilities.

Premier Don Mintoff, 62, not President Buttigieg, was the focal
point. Mintoff, a thoroughly reprehensible man, is a rabble-rouser.

Power is addictive. Having tasted it, Mintoff is insatiable.
Championing "something for nothing," he is a man covered in the mist
of conspiracy. You can see through him like a pane of glass.

Although intensely anti-British, Mintoff is the epitome of
English sangfroid. He was given a Rhodes scholarship and married an English
nurse. Mintoff, at the same time, is profoundly anti-America, anti-NATO and
pro-Soviet.

For the ceremonial occasion, Mintoff himself designed a
large monument depicting a Maltese civilian shaking hands with, a British
sailor. He-ordered it placed in a park overlooking the harbor near a bronze
plaque and a magnificent statue of Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

During World War II, against enormous odds, Malta withstood
the heaviest Nazi bombings and Britain awarded her the highest civilian
decoration: the George Cross.

Since 1956 Mintoff has urged expelling Britain's forces. But
when the London government reduced Malta's forces and discharged Maltese
workers, Mintoff abandoned integration and plunked for independence.

In June 1971 I was in Malta for the election of the premier.
The incumbent was George Borg -Oliver of Malta's National Party. He was
anti-Soviet, pro-America, pro-British and pro-NATO, in which he had offered
Malta membership. But Mintoff won the election by a single parliamentary vote!

Promptly, be threw out the NATO fleet and blackmailed
Britain and the United States. But in 1976 Mintoff was reelected. He traveled
to Moscow and First Secretary Leonid I. Brezhnev gloriously received him.

Brezhnev told Mintoff that the Soviet Navy's Mediterranean
fleet would remain permanently. This was important to Mintoff Malta's chief
industry being ship repairing and provisioning. Soviet ships visiting Malta for
repairs, refurbishing, provisioning, etc., is highly valuable.

Britain, making less use of Malta, has created severe
unemployment. In fact, you find there constant emigration to Australia, Canada,
America and elsewhere. Also, Mintoff has close ties with pro-Soviet, oil-rich,
wildman dictator Muammar el-Qaddafi of Lybia.

Mintoff bankrupted Malta. But wily Qaddafi personally loaned
him $80 million. However, Qaddafi tied his loan to Britain's renewal of leases
on Malta's bases. The leases were renewed and Mintoff repayed the $80 million.

Malta is really five islands, but is only twice the size of
our Dis

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