A DICTATORSHIP

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18255, 25 November 1933, Page 6

A DICTATORSHIP

NOT FOR BRITAIN MR BALDWIN \S CONVICTION (British Official Wireless.) Bee. 1 p.m. RUGBY Nov. 24. “Fascism,” said Mr. Stanley Baldwin in tin l House of Commons, “is begotten of Communism out of civil discord. Whenever you get Communism, and civil discord you get Fascism. You have seen it in Italy. You have seen it in Germany. My linn conviction is that you will never see either in this country.” Mr. Baldwin was replying in the debate on the address from the Throne to representations -from Conservative members that the powers and constitution of the House of Lords should be amended as a precaution against possible revolutionary Socialist schemes. Having expressed the opinion that tho House of Commons would never consent to put the House of Lords in a position of equality or superiority to itself, Ylr. Baldwin agreed that there was much to he said for some kind of Lords’ reform ; for instance, equality of representation there of all parties. The Upper Chamber, he thought, was too large, and it was not good that it should largely represent only one point of view. In regard to the suggestion that the House of Lords should he strengthened as a bulwark against a dictatorship, lie said that be had pretty clear views of his own as to what would happen if any man in Britain was rash enough to attempt a dictatorship, lie expressed the conviction that Britain would never see a dictatorship, either from the Right or Left.