THE CRITICS
LIFE-BLOOD OF DEMOCRACY. “ I maintain that the critics have rendered great service to the country. We critics are as anxious to win the war as the Government, and will not permit it to decide when criticism should be allowed. Criticism, is the life-blood of democracy, and that is what we are fighting for. If opinions are to be held in check we may as well close down Parliament, suppress the newspapers, and establish a Fascist State. It is a foul slander to suggest that when anybody indulges in criticism of the Government he is playing into the hands of the enemy. If it had not been for criticism we should never have changed the Government; Mr Churchill would not be .Prime Minister; nor would we have succeeded in stimulating the Government on many questions where it was obvious that drastic change was necessary.”—Mr Shinwell, M.P., speaking of criticism in Parliament.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 63, Issue 4475, 10 September 1941, Page 3
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152THE CRITICS Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 63, Issue 4475, 10 September 1941, Page 3
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