RIGHT OF FREE SPEECH
(N.Z.P.A.-
— . Reuter -
Magistrate*s Homily to Britons
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Received Tuesday, 11.50 a.m. LONDON, Oct. 6. Discharging on probation a man charged with threatening behaviour at a meeting of "the British League of Ex-servicemen, the magistrate at London Court said he had no sympathy with the beliefs of either the league or those who tried to break up its meetings. "So long as Britain has the right of free speech, Britons must suffer for it and allow each other to let off. steam and. express opinions with which they disagree." The magistrate added that it was no longer a free country if a man could not express his political opinions. If meetings indulged in a whole series of vilifications of the Jewish race they should be stopped. The beliefs of the Ex-servicemen's League and its opponents bdth seemed to be "isms" of foreign importation. They were both unEnglish and utterly undemocratic. Reuter adds that former members of the British Union of Fascists are said to belong to the Ex-servicemen's League.
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Chronicle (Levin), 7 October 1947, Page 5
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