FASCIST SAVAGERY.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20328, 11 June 1934, Page 1

FASCIST SAVAGERY.

Dictatorship Assailed in England. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, June 9. Letters in the newspapers, interviews and other protests, reveal the unwarranted brutality of Sir Oswald Mosley’s Olympia meeting. Wonder is expressed that many of those ejected were not killed, being hurled down flights of stairs with ruthless kickings. Mr Geoffrey Lloyd, a Conservative member of the House of Commons, says that he saw several cases of a single interrupter being attacked by twenty Fascists. Ministers are joining in the condemnation of dictatorships. The First Commissioner of Works, Mr W. Ormsby-Gore, speaking at Leamington referring to Sir Oswald Mosley’s meeting, said: "It is dangerous nonsense. We cannot have either Sir Oswald Mosley or Sir Stafford Cripps or any other ballyhoo undoing what took our people with the Magna Charta, Bill of Rights and abolition of slavery centuries to win.”

The Secretary of State for the Colonies, Sir Philip Cunliffe Lister, addressing the Junior Imperial League, said: "Force must be met by force. The majority of our people will* never stand for Fascism, an idea so alien to our character. I do not think our people are likely to be diverted by any circus of foreign origin aiming at a dictatorship, whether black or red.” Sir Oswald Mosley has issued a reply to the newspapers declaring that a campaign of interruptions was planned weeks ahead. He alleged that members of the House of Commons were ready to take advantage of red violence in order to combat Fascism which threatened Conservatism more than Socialism. Sir Oswald added that the Fascist casualties were far more numerous and serious, than those of their opponents.