WOULD NOT DEPORT THE COMMUNISTS
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GREYMOUTH, Nov. 30. "I have 110 patience witli Oommunists; 1 mean real Communists, not drawing-room. Bolslievists. Their creed and m,ine are poles apart, but I would not deport Communists if I beeame the Government. so long as they kept to the law of the land," said Mr. E. M. Algie, M.P. for Remuera, in an address in thc* miners' liall, Runanga. He was replying to a question as to wliether he he would deport Oommunists. Mr. Algie said that he eould no,l logically deport them. It would not. be British or fair if they observed the laws of the land. "But bear this in mimi,", he said. "There are many parts of the Cominunists creed whicli are eontrary to the law and I would see that Ihe law was carried out to its fullest extent."
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Chronicle (Levin), 1 December 1947, Page 7
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