THE VOICE OF BRITAIN

Grey River Argus, 2 July 1945, Page 6

THE VOICE OF BRITAIN

Churchill’s New Leadership That Mr. Churchill is still the voice of British freedom and democracy is proved by his stirring speeches in the election contest. In the darkest days of the Wai the Empire drew strength and inspiration from the voice that spoke the accents of courage and liberty, ana that hurled defiance at Ihe trampling foe. To-dav Mr. Churchill is performing the same duty. While W adl^°n^ ] f British ideas of Government, and of the relations between Parliament and people, are being chaHen,-,ed y foreign-inspired schemes of State ownership and State control, M • Churchill has spoken with the tones of a warrior-statesman. The trampling foe he detests at this moment is a soul-destroying worship of the State, which, earned to its logical limit, will mean the doom of individual liberty and free enterprise. It will mean the ena or that spirit of adventure which has made the Empire In its place the State socializes offer the idea of “security against everything, a cushioned existence in which everybody will be a State servant or a State pensioner. In New Zealand the trend to State ownership and control ■Ji?Pr°g l * e sses rapidly. One key point after anotnei is captured.. Mr. Langstone is candid enough to confess that the State ownership of the Bank of New Zealand will be but “one step toward the “new order.” That nev Y,, will shackle New Zealand with permanent manpower direction, permanent controls, monopolies, restrictions, and rationing, affecting everybody and every department of life. New Zealand should demand a halt to. State direction and State controlinserted by the Associated Chambers of Commerce of New Zealand.