IS FREEDOM AN EVIL?

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23262, 25 July 1945, Page 2

IS FREEDOM AN EVIL?

The British Tradition "We arc in real danger ot having a « post-war period of Germanism. In Germany there was much private ownership, but there was complete State control business man ?ould do nothing at all* without rst S eltin g a permit. The German Government regarded ireedem a., an c h It .said that Irec-I dc-m means‘chaos.’ Its policy was compulsory regimentation.” •Efficiency Magazine). New Zealand is tiJiateneu with Germanism. What is the difference between German methods oi complete State control and the policy that is being pressed on and pursued m the New Zealand Government? Banking ownership and control in New Zealand, as it was in Germany, is the key u securing a complete grip on the lives and actions, money and jobs of the people, as Mr Langstone has openly procViimcd in his trank public addresses. Does he expect the people of New Zealand to rush enthusiastically with him into the arms of the Germanic system? It is not a Priti.-h sxstem, not a de-i mocrafic system; as Mr Churchill has said. it. is foreign to our hearts and mmd.r an alien thing. Our men have for vrars been lighting Hit Germanic system and the principles on which it. is I.nil I. Personal libcrtx and tree cnt'-rprise in N (, w Z<'.' ,! ;’ii<l ar*' endang.'i»’d by the Government, s Gt ale-ownership polu >. lii.i rtid by the Associated C’hamIm’J:. '■! ( ommeis «• N- a Zealand --