DEMOCRACY DEFENDED.
Mil CHURCHILL IN PARIS. Britain, France or the United States would he verv miserable if they were subjected to ~Ngzi or Bolshevik rule, said Mr Winston Churchill, the Independent Conservative M.P-, addressing an audience including French Ministers. His speech was a vigorous defence of democracy. “How could we bear to he muzzled, to have spies and eavesdropppers at every corner, to be arrested and interned without trial, treated liko schoolboys when we are grown-up men, turned out on parade by the tens of thousands to cheer this and that slogan?” Mr Churchill asked. <4 How could we bear to see philosophers, teachers and authors bullied and worked to death in concentration camps and forced every hour to conceal the normal working of the human heart?”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 273, 16 October 1936, Page 2
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