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Two correspondents—appropriately, of each sex—have advocated that a public debate be held between the Hon. P. Fraser and Mr. Algie. This, to me, shows on their part a lack of the sense of political proportion between the positions of the two men. One is the Minister in charge of the Departments of Government which look after our minds and bodies Education and Health—and does the job well. The other is in reality the spokesman for those who wish to perpetuate tilings as they arc. His challenge to the Minister was out of place, and more a gesture to the Conservative gallery than a sincere desire to prevent encroachment on our political freedom. The freedom Mr. Algie advocates is the freedom to exploit the public in the same old respectable bourgeois way. This is not to say that a freedom league to safeguard individual initiative in the affairs of life is not wanted, but political acritation should be at an ebb in non-election years, and a Minister of the Crown should not be subjected to such a challenge as that made bv Mr. Alsrie. ALEXANDER FRASER.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 148, 26 June 1939, Page 6
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