QUAKERS DEFY CENSOR
- TO ISSUE LITERATURE IN SPITE OF ANY PROHIBITION. The following minute was passed at an executive meeting of the Society of Friends recently held in London:— " The executive body of the Society of Friends desire to place on record their - conviction that the recent regulation requiring the submission to the Censor of all leaflets dealing with the war and the making of peace is a grave danger to the national welfare. "The duty of every good citizen to express his thoughts on the affairs of his country is endangered. There is a deeper issue involved. It is for Christians a paramount duty to be free to obey, and to act and speak in accord with the law of God, a law higher than that of any State, and no Government official can release men from this duty. We realise the rarity of the occasion, on which a bodv of citizens find their sense of duty to bo in conflict with the la\v, and it is with a sense of the gravity of the decision that the Society of Friends must act contrary to the regulation, and continue to issue literature on war and" peace, without sub mitting it to the Censor. It is convinced' that in thus standing for spiritual liberty it is acting in the best interests of the nation."
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Evening Star, Issue 16662, 19 February 1918, Page 8
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224QUAKERS DEFY CENSOR Evening Star, Issue 16662, 19 February 1918, Page 8
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