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Hokitika Guardian, 15 May 1933, Page 4

ZNIr Robert Lynd, writing in the London “News Chronicle,” stated that it seems to him that many supporters of Fascism and Communism in Great Britain, who are perfectly tolerant themselves, do not sufficiently realise that in effect they are advocating a return tc> an age of intolerance. No doubt many lies have been told about Italy and about Russia, but the fact remains that in these' countries a political opponent is treated as an

enemy of the (State, just as in ages of religious fanaticism a religious opponent was treated as an enemy of God. In essentials the fanaticism is the same \vh /.her ran lta.'jiaii of independent thought is forced into exile out of Italy or a mob of Nazis break into a Jew's house and [,eat him merely because lie is a Jew, or a. Russian peasant is shot to encourage the others to work. We may as well face the facts. If the world continues to move in this direction, it will be going backwards. We shall find that wo have thrown away the far from worthless achievements of two centuries of civilisation; and we shall have got a new variety of the old fanaticism in exchange. The world can obviously he saved only by faith, but it will be the faith not of intolerant, but of reasonable men. Only in ail atmosphere of tolerance and reason can human beings in their infinite variety live fully, freely and at peace in each other’s company during their temporary existence on this temporary planet.”