REDS IN ENGLAND.
SUPPRESSION DESIRABLE. " COMING REVOLUTION." V , . LONDON, April 22. Lieut.-Colonel Sir Alan Burgoyne, Conservative member for Aylesbury, moved in the House of Commons a motion in favour of rigorous measures being taken to suppress revolutionary propaganda. This, he said, was now being carried on in Britain and other parts of the Empire among the civil populations and the armed forces, with the object of overthrowing the constitution. Mr. S. Saklatvala, Communist member for Battersea; said the propaganda workjamong soldiers was not ior the purpose of causing a mutiny to-morrow, but in preparation foi* the. coming Socialist revolution. The Home Secretary, Sir W. JoynsonHicks, in reply, remarked that Britain had been built up on freedom of opinion, thought and speech, but when Englishmen tried to bring about changes by armed revolution it was the duty of the Government to intervenel The motion was talked out.—(Reuter.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 95, 23 April 1926, Page 7
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146REDS IN ENGLAND. Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 95, 23 April 1926, Page 7
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