BRITISH FREEDOM

Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21035, 10 February 1940, Page 7

BRITISH FREEDOM

MINISTERS’ MEETINGS NO SPECIAL PRIVILEGE A CONTRAST DRAWN (Official Wireless) (Received Feb. 10, 12.30 p.m.) RUGBY, Feb. 9 Newspapers approve of the terms of the reply which the Minister for Home Security gave to the question in the House of Commons as to whether the police would prevent Fascist interruptions at public meetings addressed by Cabinet Ministers. Sir John Anderson answered that under the British law Cabinet Ministers could be given no greater protection than anyone else. “ It would be a sad day for Britain,” says the Manchester Guardian, “ if our Cabinet became, as in Germany, an assembly of major and minor prophets all outwardly respected in their own country because of the police at their elbow and the concentration camp at their back. “ The Minister’s reply indicated,” says the Guardian, “ that the war has not caused Britain to sacrifice her customary freedoms—even those which cause some nuisance to the majority.”