Sporting Attitude
(N.Z. Press Association)
AUCKLAND, March 1
The right of free speech was the most precious and priceless asset of the Commonwealth. Mr John A. Lee said today. Speaking to the Auckland branch of the Royal Commonwealth Society, Mr Lee said: “I have a reputation for expressing publicly my opinions, regardless of the consequences.
“That is why I say it is wonderful to be born a member of the Commonwealth—to have the right to say and write what one thinks.”
Speaking on the strength of the Commonwealth today, be said: “It is in trouble. But everything that lives is in trouble. Any nation that is not in trouble today is either in the morgue or in the history books.” But, he said, he had noticed a change in the administration of various Commonwealth countries. “For example, it was a sporting way in which President Nkrumah of Ghana was deposed the other day.” he said. "Leaders of the coup waited until he left the country and shot him on the wing, so to speak.”
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30998, 2 March 1966, Page 3
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