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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 149, 21 March 1934, Page 9

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Sir S. Cripps’s Prophecy FUTURE OF BRITAIN (Received March 20, 7 p.m.) London, March 20. “If the Government is so keen to avoid a dictatorship, why is it not prepared to deal decisively with the militarisation of politics?” said Sir Stafford Cripps, speaking at Preston. Why ‘Trenchardise’ tlie police? “It is heading straight for a dictatorship. Mr. Baldwin talks about liberty of conscience. Britain will not attain freedom until everyone has access to the moans of production.” FASCISM IN BRITAIN Parliamentary Opinion London. Marcli 19. The "Sun" correspondent says that British politicians generally are convinced that tlie public is not enamoured of Fascism, many resenting the importation of a movement essentially un-British. aiming at a despotic dictatorship with traditions of violence in the suppression of opposition _ which distinguished its rise in Italy and Germany. The Conservatives allege that: British Fascists’ meetings arc sometimes accompanied by personal violence toward persistent questioners. Their numbers throughout Britain are probably about thirty thousand. A smart uniform is their principal propaganda. They are well drilled and regimented.