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“WILL STAND FOR ANYTHING” LIBERAL LEADER DEPLORES RECENT TRENDS LONDON, Oct. 3. "he present Government was the most retrograde since the days of Lord North, and even longer, said Mr Clement Davies, Leader of the House of Commons Liberals, in a speech. “The only parallel to the Control of Engagement Order occurred 600 years ago,” he' said. “It was the Statute of Labourers of 1349, passed after the Black Death, when agricultural workers were put back into the position of serfs. “It remains for this Government, copying the examples of Germany, Italy, and Russia, to threaten the freedom of the people. They have imposed more restrictions than were even contemplated in wartime. That is not the way to recovery. There was a time when a Minister was warned, and rightly, that the people would not stand for it. There is a danger to-day that they will stand for anything.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26584, 6 October 1947, Page 5
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