THE RIGHTS OF THE INDIVIDUAL

Chronicle (Levin), 23 June 1947, Page 5

THE RIGHTS OF THE INDIVIDUAL

Received "Sunday, 7,0 p.m. LGNDON, June 21. '"I 'have no doubt tfeat in several countries of 'eastern Europe I liitman ri'gbts are demed and the socalled democratic government ; . is -a travesty^"' said Mr. Attlee-, at a National Union of Mine- j workers' •demonstration -at Rarnsley. i Referring to the Unit'ed Nat.ions eommittee on human rights, i he said though the general iprinciples had been approved, a general i principie was of little use if not applied. "I arn concerned that there should be people i-n this country, ; who profess to be socialists, who appear 'to condone the acts of a j Uoverinmen't 'calling themselves Left when they would prutest j vigorously.if the Government of the Ri'g-ht did the same things," ; he said. : "Free'dom of speech, eonscienee and personal freedom are the ; rights of the individual whether capitalist or worker, Conseryative, ! Liberal or Socialist. "Wherever you find the right of the opposition i deuied or such devi'ees as the single -list of eandidates pr a Govemmcnt that eannot be removed through fhe ballot b'ox, there is 110 ] true democracy and 110 tiTie freedom. 4 j '"Our foreign policy' is based 011 the right of -every man to li choose his GoverniUent whether i't is Consetvative, Liberal, Social- j ist or Communist. " Labour or Social Democra'ey was fac'ing two attaelfs— fi'om j reactionaries and from 'Commu-nists, said the Labour Party ; general secretary, Mr. Moygah Phillips, in a -speech at Norwieh » after a four of southeastern Rurope. He said ihe Communists | regarded fhe So'cial Demoerats as an arm of capitalism and Social i Democracy as the prccurs'or of Fascism. Labour must re'sist these ] attaeks and work for soeialism in which liberty was preserved. | . « } Some people seemed to re,gard the rigid cenkorsliips and secur- • ity iheasures he had seen in many counti'ies as ■essential for a social j ohatfge, but Labour 'S faitfe was that progress. could be lasting ohly ! iu a free and ediicafed dethO'craey,