“ATTACKS ON LIBERTIES”
Questions About Affiliations
The last year was not free froin attacks on civil liberties. In June, 1960, the press reported that private secretaries to Ministers of the Crown had been circularised with questionnaires asking them to give information about past affiliations and enumerating a number of bodies which. apparently, were considered by Government particularly worth mentioning, says the annual report of the Canterbury Council for Civil Liberties. “Such research into people’s past associations tends to undermine freedom of expression and freedom of association right throughout the community. If nobody can tell when his present will become his questionable past people will tend to tread the paths permitted by convention, and radical or non-conform-ist thought will become rare The country at large can only suffer from such thought-control.” says the report.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29498, 27 April 1961, Page 10
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