MR SEMPLE AT AUCKLAND
Sir—lt is difficult to understand how inordinate abuse of a major Power can substitute for lack of government control in the community interests. The Minister of the Crown would strike the headlines just as easy and probably with as much result to electors of political balance with a diatribe on Franco and his political doctrine and works. The one distinguishing point between our own bureaucracy and Communism is the elective method and policy of referendum or plebiscite, aptly illustrated by Labour’s Order-in-Council conscription act. If the sentiments expressed at Auckland are those of New Zealand’s representative at Moscow, they are a shrewd method of obtaining democratic consideration for the abused. After all, freedom is individual power to become, not just power for some.—Yours, etc., SOUTH ISLAND. July 19, 1948
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25553, 22 July 1948, Page 8
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