KEEPING FREEDOM
TOTALITARIAN DANGER STATEMENT BY PRIMATE WATCH AGAINST DICTATORSHIP Stating tliat he did not "wish to discuss politics, but that he felt he should say what was concerning him, the Primate of New Zealand, Archbishop Averill, told members of the Auckland Council of Christian Congregations last night that they should be on the watch against State totalitarianism. "We have to be on * the watch against any State claims to totalitarian powers, that is, powers over our souls as well as our bodies," ho said. "I do not wish to "speak about any particular Government, but we may have to fight some sort of dictatorship which may claim the right to say what the Churches will or will not teach. "It is no use going to fight for the freedom of the Poles," he added, if we are going to lose our own freedom. We have got to take the militant aspect sometimes."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23486, 25 October 1939, Page 8
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