IS THERE HOPE OF ADVANCE?

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 26 August 1933, Page 14

IS THERE HOPE OF ADVANCE?

iS-ELBOBNE 'S complaint that the Labour Party, which promptly and rightly protested against Nazi brutalities, has never made a murmur of complaint against Bolshevik brutalities, raises a question which goes beyond the point put by him,’’ writes Mr St. John Irvine in “The Times." “It is this: Is there any hope of progress in human affairs in the sense that we will one day evolve a just-minded people to whom truth, so far as it is discoverable, will always be preferred to propaganda, and personal or party advantage. Is there, indeed, any such thing as progress?’ ’ He concludes: “I wonder whether •we must abandon hope of a society in • which man will be free and his mind • unoppressed. I have long acted on the ! belief that I must not condemn in my I

Placing Truth Above Personal Gain

‘ 1 Those who dislike the look of the mansion and desire to make one more to their taste will be forbidden to lay a single brick in a new style. They will be ‘liquidated’ if they do. Must ive suppose that progress is an illusion, and that Lenin is only Gradgrind in a different language?"

friend what I condemn in my enemy. Is this absurd of me? Am Ito give up the hope that a world will come in which dissent will 'be considered rather than repressed, and society will be conducted on the principle that an infinite variety of opinions is better than a single thought? Christ’s assertion that there are many mansions in His Father’s house seems not to please our Socialists and Communists, who are resolved that there shall be only one mansion, and that they shall design it.