WHAT CRITICS MUST DO
IvEEP WHOLE SCHEME IX PERSPECTIVE “There are words spoken by Oliver Cromwell in Putney Church in the autumn of 1641 which some critical-ly-minded M.P.’s might recollect. ‘lf,’ said Cromwell, ‘we may come to an honest and single debate, how we may all agree in one common way for public good; if we meet so, we shall meet with a great deal more comfort and hopes of a good and happy issue and understanding of the business. But if otherwise, I despair.’ That is how the House of Commons should meet in war-time —for ‘honest and single debate.’ There must be debate; and honest criticism of Government policy, even in war-time, must not be silenced. But there should be no room for veiled personal hostilities or ambitions; and the critics must not fail to keep the whole war-scene, with all its fearful weight of consequences, in stark perspective before them.” —“Yorkshire Post.”
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 13772, 15 October 1942, Page 6
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