‘BRITONS NEVER SHALL BE SLAVES’, MORRISON SAYS

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 October 1948, Page 5

‘BRITONS NEVER SHALL BE SLAVES’, MORRISON SAYS

(Rec. 11 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 10. “Britons never shall be slaves,” the Lord President of the Council, Mr Herbert Morrison, said in a broadcast to America, commemorating the seventh anniversary of Freedom House in New York.

“Today we all know that liberty must be defended day and night, no matter whether the threat comes from armies or from secret police and dictators,” he said. Mr Morrison reviewed Britain’s post-war economic efforts. “With the help of the European Recovery Programme,” he said, “we hope to be out of the red by 1953. By July of this year our exports were up to 140 per cent, of the 1938 level. I think we can feel justly proud.” Long Experience

“Britain was determined to support the struggle for freedom, happiness and dignity,” said Mr Morrison. “We in Britain have had long experience of defending liberty against all kinds of tyrants. We have not forgotten that experience. We also know how you prize liberty. We more and more think of mankind as divided into free and oppressed, rather than as nations and states.” Mr Morrison declared: “It isn’t enough to believe in freedom. Success depends upon , opr wpyjcing for it effectively on 'the. .right lines.”

“We Have Done Well”

Referring to Britain’s economic problems, he said: “We and our friends in Europe are using the European Recovery Programme to get out of debt. When you consider that 16 nations with hundreds of years of independence and rivalry behind them have got together in the way we have fh the last year, I think we have every right to think we have done well.” Mr Morrison described the British Commonwealth as “a model pioneer towards a world of free, peaceful and’ democratic nations.”