FAITH IN SOCIALISM
MR SEMPLES CONFESSION United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Onvrieht SYDNEY, July 21. The Hon. R. Semple was tendered a civil reception at Bathurst. Responding to the Mayor’s welcome, Mr Semple said he was an uncompromising Socialist. Though that word had suffered wrong Interpretation and has been brought into use as a bogey to scare people, he still acclaimed from the housetops that he was a Socialist. The vital issue to-day was whether there should be a Democracy or a dictatorship. The British Commonwealth was the only group of countries that remained steadfast to the principles of Democracy, and the New Zealand Labour Government was fighting for the preservation of that principle, and to strengthen the weakest links in the chain of the British Empire.
Mr Semple will leave to-day for his native town of Sofala, 25 miles from Bathurst.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20786, 22 July 1937, Page 7
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