MR. EDEN SAYS THAT BRITAIN MUST OPPOSE COMMUNISM STRONGLY

Wanganui Chronicle, 26 July 1949, Page 5

MR. EDEN SAYS THAT BRITAIN MUST OPPOSE COMMUNISM STRONGLY

LONDON, July 23. —Unless Britain built up a strong front against Communism there was no sure way for their democratic way of life at home Mr. Anthony Eden said in a broadcast tonight. “Communism today suppresses freedom of worship and every other freedom. It is ruthless in its methods and worldwide in its activities. We in Britain have a special opportunity to guide and keep tiie world in the true path of freedom. We have to solve our problems at Home if we are to fulfil our responsibilities to the world. Our way of life will work only if control and direction from the centre are reduced to the minimum needed. Because of our economic plight, our political opponents are too much given to control for love of control and so in restricting liberty in small matters they are playing into the hands of those who would suppress liberty in the greater things of life. The more we are habituated to control, the weaker becomes the sense of personal responsibility which has been our strength as a nation in the past.”