IRATE CLERGYMAN
“BRITANNIA” BOYCOTTED. LONDON, November 11. Rev. Desmond Morse-Boycott, founder of the St. Mary of the Angels song school at Addlestone, Surrey, has banned “Rule Britannia” from the choir’s repertoire. “'I have done so in the interests of truth," he said. “What's the use of singing ‘We never shall be slaves' if
we are slaves? We are 'in bondage to the Government, which cloaks totalitarianism under the guise of democracy. We have no freedom and can hope for none.” Mr. Morse-Boycott said that under the proposed Hospitals Bill parents would have to getmerrnission to have a child in their ovfe home. “The home is the nest, and God intended it for babies,” he said. “The Government’s next step will be to have fathers and mothers apply for permission before having. a baby, in the interests of eugenics. I would like to quit England if I could and replant my choir in New Zealand, * which has more love for the Mother 1 Country than our present Government.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 7 December 1945, Page 8
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