FREEDOM
Until free institutions, including freedom of trade, are re-established in Europe prosperity will not return to any part' of the Western world. That is not because there is any great magic in Parliaments, or any magic at all in legislation, but rather to the contrary. Free institutions imply and ensure that men are able to act freely in all their capacities, that they are free to produce and free to consume, free to lend and free to borrow, that the whole infinitely complex mechanism of a free international industrial society can be slowly put together again, stocks accumulated, margins safeguarded, and capital taken out of political hands and put back into productive enterprise.' Until this is done there will be constant famines and shortages of essential raw materials which no politicians, whatever the colour of their shirts, will be able to avert.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 23, 2 May 1947, Page 6
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143FREEDOM Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 23, 2 May 1947, Page 6
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