FASHIONABLE PUBLIC OPINION
" I ask myself, and I suppose everybody must ask in these days, whether in that business of fasliibnable public opinion we are in our respeetive spheres creators or ereatures," said Viscount Halifax in a recenfc speech. "Do we create, or are we ereated by it? Tbo answer, I suppose, depends on circumstances, but partly — and probably, I would like to tbink — upon ourselves. It is for tbis reason that I believe public opinion and the British publie is instinetively inclined to follow leadership if that leadership is such that it ean trust — by that I mean if it believes, when a ease is stated to it either in the Press or through the, lips of a politician, that it is a fair statement. I do not believe that distortion of a -case or the suppression, or partial suppression, of a ease has ever dpne any good to the Press or to any politician."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 125, 12 June 1937, Page 4
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