LIBERTY AT STAKE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20102, 23 November 1939, Page 10

LIBERTY AT STAKE

MR. POLSON'S VIEWS THE SOCIALIST MENACE FIGHT ON HOME FRONT "We have to see that when we have won the war we have not lost our liberty in New Zealand,” declared Mr. W. J. Poison, M.P., when speaking at a National Party function in Palmerston North. "We feel that under the guise of war needs we are being bludgeoned into accepting conditions which will be little better than peon,nge in future.

1 “We are having socialism completely forced upon us under the guise that it is necessary for the prosecution of the war. We know, however, that it is not necessary, because we put the whole of our resources into the previous war without regimentation. We are ready to make every sacrifice possible to win the war, but we are not willing at the same time to be regimented into socialistic systems which will mean the end of liberty." Mr. Poison added that never in the history of the country had there been such class hatred as was now engendered. It was something the Government would have to answer for in future and something that would rebound on it. There were two years to go before a change could be made in the Government of the Country, but it would be made all right; he could see it coming plainly. Dozens of people in his district who had given Labour their vote at the last election had told him they would never do .it again.