Blessings of a Democracy People in Quay street, Auckland, on Sunday afternoon could not help smiling quietly and thanking their lucky stars that they live in a British Dominion (says the “Star”). A Communist was criticising the Government, and scattered freely among the crowd were policemen, evidently put there to protect him if his listeners grew unruly. “In any country other than a British one he would probably not have been allowed to speak as he did.” said a bystander. “Because we are British, he was not only allowed to speak his mind, but was protected from the consequences of so doing by the very Government he was decrying.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 12 January 1940, Page 3
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109Page 3 Advertisements Column 5 Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 12 January 1940, Page 3
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