MR.BALDWIN'S WARNING
VIRUS OF FASCISM AND COMMUNISM '
DANGER OF MASS MOVEMENT
■•■•;' LONDON, April 10. The Prime: Minister, Mr. Baldwin, addressing his constituents .of the Bewdley electorate for what is probably the last time, said ne had always felt that for the sake of the country,, the party, and his,own self the moment a man had given his best, he should ask to be relieved of the burden., "It is'better to go before the people know you are becoming incompetent," he- said.~.' _~.' ~ Mr. Bald.win warned .. the country against hasty changes which would wreck the Constitution and "bring disaster and bloodshed to. millions. 1 "Russia, Germany, and Italy are governed by ideals alien to England, and which cannot help in solving our problems," he declared. "Yet we must not carelessly assume that Fascism or Communism cannot ■ happen "here. Mechanism and materialism bring the danger of mass suggestion and mass movements. We must keep ourselves immune from .the virus of Fascism and Communism alike," he added.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 85, 12 April 1937, Page 9
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