FIGHT FOR FREEDOM
CANADIAN OPINION
OPPOSITION LEADER
“We are fighting for religious and democratic freedom,” said the Leader of the Opposition in the Canadian Federal Government, Dr. R. J. Manion, in a broadcast speech.
Unless the democratic nations were successful in stopping the advance of international gangsterism there tvas a danger of the whole of civilisation being overwhelmed and the religious beliefs of all people engulfed, Dr. Manion declared. For some inexplicable reason the Nazi Government in Germany, and to a similar degree the Soviet Government in Russia, had warred on religion of all kinds.
Canada could not have remained neutral and at the same time loyal to the British Empire,
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20097, 17 November 1939, Page 11
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