CORRESPONDENTS' VIEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 303, 23 December 1939, Page 8

CORRESPONDENTS' VIEWS.

DANGERS Or CRITICISM: #4

(To the Editor.)

The news of the termination appointment of Mr. J. A. Lee point of considerable interest in potitibi ' movements. On more than one ocewjm, I have heard Mr. It M. Algi© that, in the Socialist' State, criticism of the ruling clique an impossibility. He supported his ttol' tention with the statement that policy of the Socialist is to create i® 1 ever-increasing army of Government 'S servants and to license those whom the Government cannot employ. He armed % that under such conditions any who wished to express his own opinieau would have to run the risk of toeing « his job or his license. No Algie will be quick to observe that the action of the ruling authorities in Wellington has furnished convincing proof of the soundness of his argument. J| r | Lee ventured to criticise the policy of those above him, and the natural reward " has been the loss of his job. In Ger. many under similar circumstances the 1 penalty would have been different only in degree. Thus we see that Socialism and the free expression of individual opinion 'cannot survive together * grey LTJOT.