BRITAIN’S STABILITY.

Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19363, 17 September 1934, Page 9

BRITAIN’S STABILITY.

ROCK IN TROUBLED SEAS. Sir Thomas Tnsktp, the Attorneygeneral, speaking at Ipswich, said that j at this time In the history of Europe | they might take a look round and conI gratulate themselves that, without the help of dictators or Fascists, they had made a tolerable success of their own government. They had not required the assistance of gunmen or of concentration camps. No racial terrors need prevent anybody who was a loyal subject of the Crown from having his full rights and privileges. Britain was almost the only country in Europe of which these facts were true. They owed their immunity from the terrors that afflicted other nations to the fact that every man and woman was brought up to believe that lie or she 1 had a duly to administer parliamentary , Institutions on a democratic system : with a view to tho Interests of the ! nation as a whole. They owed their ! ordered liberty to the fact that they j cultivated respect for law and order. I They owed the abounding goodwill j which they found in all ranks and I classes to tho fact that every man and I woman felt that he had an equal part In bringing about the prosperity of the ■country, and that If failure should overtake them he would have to bear his fair ..bare of the blame. The only Ihope of Europe and the world was that Great Britain stood like a rock In a sea of trouble ;