FREE SPEECH.
SECRET SESSION NOT LIKELY TO BE REPEATED. LONDON, May 2. (Received May 3, at 9.30 p.m.) Lord Parmoor, in the House of Lords, criticised the regulation forbidding public reference to the Cabinet proceedings. Free speech was the basis of the Constitution, and the Government cut off all knowledge at the source. The secret session— the worst form of secrecy—had been such a failure thai it was not likely to be repeated.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16685, 4 May 1916, Page 5
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