Leash Better Than Kennel For Subversive Agents

Northern Advocate, 27 April 1940, Page 9

Leash Better Than Kennel For Subversive Agents

(Received 1.30 p.m.) RUGBY, April 26. The British press expresses satisfaction with the Home Secretary’s statement in the House of Commons on the activities of small' groups in Britain which might impede the national war effort. The commonsense attitude of consideration as to whether some strengthening of the regulation is desirable, without rushing into panic measures to suppress such activities is warmly approved. The “News Chronicle” says that in wartime the amount of liberty allowed must depend primarily on considerations of national safety. The case against proscribing British Fascists and Communists rests chiefly on their comparative harmlessness while in the open, and their potential danger if driven underground. To leave them at liberty, but carefully watched, is to demonstrate to ourselves and to the world that our democracy is strong enough to retain freedom under the strain of war.

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