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Greymouth Evening Star, 24 July 1945, Page 2

IS FREEDOM AN EVIL? . THE BRITISH 'TRADITION “We are in real danger of having a post-war period of Germanism. In Germany there was much private ownership, but there was complete State control. A business man could do nothing at all without first getting a permit. The German Government regarded freedom as an evil. It said that freedom means ‘chaos.’ Its policy was compulsory regimentation.” (Efficiency Magazine). New Zealand is threatened with Germanism. What is the difference between German methods of complete State control and the policy that is being pressed on and pursued by the New Zealand Government? Banking ownership and control in New Zealand, as it was in Germany, is the key to securing a complete grip on the lives and actions, -money and jobs of the people, as Mr. Langstone has openly proclaimed in his frank public addresses. Does he expect the people of New Zealand to rush enthusiastically with him into the arms of the Germanic system? It is not a British system, not. a democratic system; as Mr. Churchill has said, it is foreign to our hearts and minds—an alien thing. Our men have for years been fighting the Germanic system and the principles on which it is built. Personal liberty and free enterprise in New Zealand are endangered by the Government’s State-ownership policy.—lnserted by the Associated Chamber of Commerce of New Zea-land.—-39. '