TOPICS OF THE DAY
Return to Peace and Freedom Bureaucrats, as experience of the last war proved, have an unpleasant habit of clinging to emergency powers long after the emergency is past, says the Spectator, London. We ought not, after this war, to be compelled to fight piecemeal for the return of each of our former freedoms. One great Act of Parliament should restore all of them except those which the Government of the day can show to be necessary in the conditions of peace. Too much freedom is better than too little, and the burden of re-justifying every claim to continuing emergency powers should be thrust by Parliament upon tire Executive. Meanwhile an elaborate examination and recording of our departures from liberty since 1914 might well occupy a Commission cf constitutional lawyers appointed by the Lord Chancellor. Thenreport would be invaluable if they were able to make it swiftly when wt emerge from the present tunnel and begin again thirstily to taste a freer air.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21243, 14 October 1940, Page 6
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