IMMORAL BOOKS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 116, 23 November 1928, Page 14

IMMORAL BOOKS

HOME SECRETARY AND ACTION (From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, 19th. October. "It may possibly 'bo in the • near future I shall have to deal with immoral and disgusting books. For instance,- 1 have to deal ivith immoral, disgusting behaviour in -our parks and public places. I have to deal at times with plays and cinemas, though 1" have no real power in this respect." This declaration \yas made by the Home'Secretary^ iv an address' to the London Diocesaii Council oE Youth at the Central Hall, AVestmiustcr. "The Home Secretary is a man who is exposed to every kind of attack." iSir William Joynson-Hicks continued, "and he gets it pretty often. I am attacked on the ouo hand by all those people who put freedom of speech and thought and writing before everything else in the world as if there were freedom in God's world to pollute tho young generation growing up. "There must be some limit to the freedom of what a man may write or speak in this great country of ours. That freedom, in my view, must be determined by the question as to whether what is written or spoken makes one of the least of these little ones offend." Sir William said that only if tho i Secretary for State had behind him tho forces of the Christian churches ! was he able to deal with his problems fearlessly and honestly. He referred |to the great work which the . police were doing to assist them in their task, [and said that they had very difficult times.