DEMOCRACY DEFENDED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19141, 9 October 1936, Page 2

DEMOCRACY DEFENDED

MR. CHURCHILL IN PARIS INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS PARIS, Sept. 2b. Britain. France or the United States would be very miserable if they were subjected to Nazi or Bolrfievik rule, said Mr. Winston Churchill, the. Independent Conservative M.P., addressing an audience including French Monsters His speech was a vigorous delence ot democracy. , , , "How could we bear to be muzzled, to have spies and eavesdroppers at every corner, to bo arrested and interned without trial, treated like schoolboys when we are grown-up men, turned out on parade by the tens of thousands to cheer this and that slogan?" Mr. Churchill asked. , .. , "How could we. bear to see philosophers teachers and authors bulbed and worked to death in concentration camp-? and forced every hour to conceal the normal working of the human heart; I "Wc will not surrender our individual 'rights to the morbid regimentation of the totalitarian State. "We are not so weak and helpless as some people make out. The British Fieri is certainly far stronger in relation to any fleet or combination of fleets in Europe than in 1914, and preparedness will .certainly bo fully maintained in future.