FREE SPEECH AND FREE PRESS.
ME. CHAMBERLAIN’S TRIBUTE (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright) Received Sunday, 7.5 p.m. LONDON, March 19.
“Free speech and a free Press are great educators as well as great guardians of the people’s liberty,” declared the Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, at the Parliamentary Press Gallery’s annual dinner at which he was the chief guest. *'lf the public is not allowed to know the facts and if they are allowed only to hear what rulers choose them to hear, then that people is in danger of being led to embark on a course which may presently lead them to disaster.
1 ‘ Thanks to our House of Commons and our Press, which tells the people what is going on in the House of Commons, our people arc exempt from that danger. The idea of substituting community conscience for individual thought has no attractions for us,” he added.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 March 1938, Page 7
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