FASCISTS AND "REDS"

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23005, 7 October 1936, Page 10

FASCISTS AND "REDS"

BOTH DANGERS TO ORDER ACTIVITIES IN ENGLAND (British Official Wireless) (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) RUGBY, Oct. 5. In connection with the Fascist march in London, altogether some 80 persons were arrested and are being charged with obstructing the police. As a result most newspapers praise the police for their handling of a dangerous situation. The Times, in a leading article headed "A Public Nuisance," says: "This sort of hooliganism must clearly be ended. The activities of bost Fascists and Communists in this country seem to most people to be tedious and rather a pitiable burlesque, but the law rightly allows them, like other people, to express their opinions and to testify to their beliefs by methods of procession and public meetings. What can be done, and what was done yestei'day, is for the police to decide at the time on every occasion, whether the procession or meeting is likely to provoke a breach of the peace, and to decide accordingly whether it is to be held or not. The decision can be taken without any regard to the relative merits of Fascists and Communists. To most people there does not seem much to choose between them as dangers to public order."