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Hokitika Guardian, 15 June 1934, Page 4

“There is this special objection to this sort of thing—the existence of one private and unauthorised force inevitably tends to call into existence another, ” says Sir John Simon in respect of the “Ei'ack Shirt” mind. If people start expressing their political ideas not only by the colour of their shirts, but by preparation's to demonstrate their physical force, there will be more colours than one; we may end by finding ourselves black and blue in the scuffle, .and we shall he in danger of closing the practice as well as the doctrinei of that common citizenship in which one opinion is as free as another, and undivided public authority is respected because it deals out equal treatment (according toi Haw. That would mean slipping back into ‘a different,, qoncjjption of political organisation which is not the least an improvement on British practice, 'and which inevitably leads to rival attempts at bullying people wo do not happen to like. . . It is the essence cf British political liberty that justice should be administered with complete impartial-

ity, and as speedily as possible; that those who are proved innocent should receive and enjoy their freedom; that governing should be carried on under the authority of a Parliamentary Government; and that order should he kept by responsible authorities, for whom Ministers of the Crown and elected local bodies are answerable. By these means, and no other, Britain at least can be made ‘safe for democracy ’ ” „ ,