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STRENGTH IN DEMOCRACY. HON. It. SEMPLE’S SPEECH. STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLES. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received July 21, 11.55 a.m SYDNEY, July'2l. Hon. R. Semple was tendered a civic reception at Bathurst. Responding to the Mayor’s welcome, Air Semple said he was an uncompromising. Socialist. Though that word had suffered a wrong interpretation and had been brought into use as a bogey to scare, people, lie still proclaimed from the housetops that he was a Socialist. A vital fssuo to-day, he said, was whether there should be a democracy or a dictatorship. The British Commonwealth was the only group of countries that remained steadfast to the principles of democracy, and the New Zealand Labour Government was fighting lor the preservation of that principle and to strengthen the weakest links in the chain of the British Empire. Mr Semplo leaves to-day lor his native town, Sofala, 25 miles from Bathurst. ,
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 197, 21 July 1937, Page 9
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