COMMITTED FOR TRIAL

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21156, 4 July 1940, Page 12

COMMITTED FOR TRIAL

SPEECH IN WELLINGTON (By Telegraph.—Special to Times) WELLINGTON, Wednesday Pleading not guilty in the Magistrate’s Court today to a charge under the public safety emergency regulations of making a subversive speech at a public meeting in Miramar on the night of Sunday, May 26, Douglas Murdock Martin was committed by Mr A. M. Goulding, S.M., to the Supreme Court for trial. Bail was allowed. Mr W. H. Cunningham conducted the Crown case and Mr W. P. Rollings appeared for the defence. Mr Rollings contended that on a

fair construction of what Martin sent for trial, but the magistrate said that if it appeared that a prima facie case had been made out the matter should go to the Supreme Court. He though that this case should.

I \ The Golden Rule “The vision which war must bring us, it it is to bring anything but evil, is the vision of a world in which man is striving harder to prevent himself from lapses into savagery, a world in which the causes of war are being removed, or at least sterilised,” said Lord Meston, Chancellor of Aberdeen University, in addressing graduates. “My plea, in short, is that, amid the busy hours of your working life, you should try to spare some leisure for idealism, that brand of constructive idealism of which the world will stand in sore need when war is over. It is inconceivable that the nations should again allow the progress of man to be exposed to the sabotage from which it has suffered in recent years. It will be a heavy task, but the magnitude need not appal you. There is a royal road to its fulfilment, and the rule of that road is that each of ua should do to others as we would that others should do to us." -