CERTAIN LIMITS
FREEDOM UNDER TEST. “The easiest reply to a man who offends you is always to offend him back. To refrain from doing so is not necessarily a proof of cowardice. If it were there could be no civilisation, no progress and no law. The British Empire has been built up on compromise, and it has lasted longer than any regime based on the suppression of individual freedom. Its occasional resorts to such methods of suppression invariably weaken it; it would be difficult to deny this in the cases of India and Ireland, and it may become difficult in the case of Palestine. There are certain limits of concession beyond which no democrat should go. He should be just as ready as the Fascist or the Communist to fight for his beliefs, but the very fact that one of the most important of those beliefs is that tolerance is a great quality should save him from being stampeded into either of the extremist camps. It is not in Spain alone that man’s devotion to freedom is being put to the test.” —Vernon Bartlett in the “World Rev;ew.”
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 4954, 11 February 1937, Page 6
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