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Hearing All Sides “A free Parliament and a free Press are getting something of a rarity in these clays, but they are no less precious on that account to us,’’ said Mr Nevilb Chamberlain, the British Premier, in a speech to members of the Press gallery. “The idea of substituting, community conscience for individual thought has no attraction .for us. Freedom may sometimes degenerate into irresponsibility, but our experience shows us that in this centrifugal machine of publicity everything that is false, that is insincere, that is untruthful, is sooner or later thrown out, and only what is sound and honest and sensible remains. In our House of Commons there is no subject debated of which all sides are not brought into view, and through the Press the public are able to form a judgment which is based on a knowledge of all the facts. If that be not so, if the public are not allowed to know the to hear, then that people are in danger of being led to embark upon a course which may presently lead them into disaster.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20524, 14 June 1938, Page 6
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