HARBOUR LIGHTS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 11, 22 October 1948, Page 4

HARBOUR LIGHTS

Sir, —In your leader of October 11, I would agree with you re the Harbours Amendment Bill, that for a Government to appoint members to a Local Body, without election, is a breach of our Charter of Rights, a Dictatorship, and a forecast of full control of the individual citizen, “en masse.” However, I would refer to your remark that a country such as this, with a high standard of education and living need have nothing to fear from Communism if it can produce a Democracy that works.

We have ample evidence of how a so-called Democracy is working in our . Universities. For example, take the latest demonstration of the Victoria College students in Wellington (not a singular case). I would ask, would you expect to pluck a rose from a thistle? Or a Professor and/or colleague of the London School of Economics to teach the British the law of economic freedom? And further, it is quite conceivable that a bigoted conservative might charge some more' liberal members of left-wing affections of the McDonald type. It was pressure by the private owners of the Bank of England that led to that alliance in 1931 of the British Conservatives with the MacDonald Socialists. Which represents the Jewish-Maxist penetration in' Britain to date. So it is the money monopoly’s power that backs Socialism for its Communist ends, under the guise of a so-called Democratic administration of political economy. Yours etc., W. BRADSHAW.